CVE-2026-23032 (GCVE-0-2026-23032)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-31 11:42 – Updated: 2026-01-31 11:42
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Title
null_blk: fix kmemleak by releasing references to fault configfs items
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: null_blk: fix kmemleak by releasing references to fault configfs items When CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK_FAULT_INJECTION is enabled, the null-blk driver sets up fault injection support by creating the timeout_inject, requeue_inject, and init_hctx_fault_inject configfs items as children of the top-level nullbX configfs group. However, when the nullbX device is removed, the references taken to these fault-config configfs items are not released. As a result, kmemleak reports a memory leak, for example: unreferenced object 0xc00000021ff25c40 (size 32): comm "mkdir", pid 10665, jiffies 4322121578 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 69 6e 69 74 5f 68 63 74 78 5f 66 61 75 6c 74 5f init_hctx_fault_ 69 6e 6a 65 63 74 00 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 inject.......... backtrace (crc 1a018c86): __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x494/0xbd8 kvasprintf+0x74/0xf4 config_item_set_name+0xf0/0x104 config_group_init_type_name+0x48/0xfc fault_config_init+0x48/0xf0 0xc0080000180559e4 configfs_mkdir+0x304/0x814 vfs_mkdir+0x49c/0x604 do_mkdirat+0x314/0x3d0 sys_mkdir+0xa0/0xd8 system_call_exception+0x1b0/0x4f0 system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec Fix this by explicitly releasing the references to the fault-config configfs items when dropping the reference to the top-level nullbX configfs group.
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Linux Linux Affected: bb4c19e030f45c5416f1eb4daa94fbaf7165e9ea , < 1a3286edf4d48ce37f8982ff3c3b65159a5ecbb2 (git)
Affected: bb4c19e030f45c5416f1eb4daa94fbaf7165e9ea , < d59ba448ccd595d5d65e197216cf781a87db2b28 (git)
Affected: bb4c19e030f45c5416f1eb4daa94fbaf7165e9ea , < f1718da051282698aa8fa150bebb9724f6389fda (git)
Affected: bb4c19e030f45c5416f1eb4daa94fbaf7165e9ea , < 40b94ec7edbbb867c4e26a1a43d2b898f04b93c5 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.122 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.67 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.7 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19-rc6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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