CVE-2026-68312 (GCVE-0-2026-68312)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:02 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:03
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Title
cifs: fix cifsFileInfo leak on kmalloc failure in deferred close drain paths
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix cifsFileInfo leak on kmalloc failure in deferred close drain paths In cifs_close_deferred_file(), cifs_close_all_deferred_files(), and cifs_close_deferred_file_under_dentry(), when a pending deferred close is cancelled via cancel_delayed_work(), the subsequent kmalloc_obj() to add the file to the local processing list may fail under memory pressure. The loop breaks immediately, but the cancelled work is no longer pending (it would have called _cifsFileInfo_put()), and the cfile is never added to file_head for processing. The cifsFileInfo reference and the open server handle both leak. Fix by saving the cfile that failed allocation in a local variable, breaking as before, and calling _cifsFileInfo_put() on it after releasing the lock. Any files later in the iteration are unaffected since their deferred work is still pending and will fire normally.
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e3fc065682ebbbd15b0ce0036800f4acbf765d46 , < 32390b3f06f26e366cfb27dbac4bc0196c321535 (git)
Affected: e3fc065682ebbbd15b0ce0036800f4acbf765d46 , < c2f2e83e3bbc5483730fd4ee903182761f1ae50f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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