FKIE_CVE-2026-68312

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-10 13:20 - Updated: 2026-08-17 05:18
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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.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32390b3f06f26e366cfb27dbac4bc0196c321535
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2f2e83e3bbc5483730fd4ee903182761f1ae50f
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  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncifs: fix cifsFileInfo leak on kmalloc failure in deferred close drain paths\n\nIn cifs_close_deferred_file(), cifs_close_all_deferred_files(), and\ncifs_close_deferred_file_under_dentry(), when a pending deferred close\nis cancelled via cancel_delayed_work(), the subsequent kmalloc_obj() to\nadd the file to the local processing list may fail under memory pressure.\nThe loop breaks immediately, but the cancelled work is no longer pending\n(it would have called _cifsFileInfo_put()), and the cfile is never added\nto file_head for processing.  The cifsFileInfo reference and the open\nserver handle both leak.\n\nFix by saving the cfile that failed allocation in a local variable,\nbreaking as before, and calling _cifsFileInfo_put() on it after\nreleasing the lock.  Any files later in the iteration are unaffected\nsince their deferred work is still pending and will fire normally."
    }
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  "id": "CVE-2026-68312",
  "lastModified": "2026-08-17T05:18:34.070",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2026-08-10T13:20:21.060",
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    }
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  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "vulnStatus": "Received"
}



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