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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-72494 (CRITICAL 9.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/irdma: Replace waitqueue and flag with completion The driver previously used a waitqueue along with an explicit request_done flag, but without proper barriers around request_done. An earlier patch by Gui-

[NVD] CVE-2026-72494 (CRITICAL 9.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/irdma: Replace waitqueue and flag with completion The driver previously used a waitqueue along with an explicit request_done flag, but without proper barriers around request_done. An earlier patch by Gui-

lownvdPublished 2026-08-15

CVE-2026-72494 CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL Published: 2026-08-15T06:22:23.747

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/irdma: Replace waitqueue and flag with completion

The driver previously used a waitqueue along with an explicit request_done flag, but without proper barriers around request_done.

An earlier patch by Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com> attempted to fix

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72494