GHSA-wm9r-84gr-484qCriticalCVSS 9.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix potential UAF in...

Published
July 24, 2026
Last Modified
August 27, 2026

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📋 Description

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

netfs: Fix potential UAF in netfs_unlock_abandoned_read_pages()

netfs_unlock_abandoned_read_pages(rreq) accesses the index of the folios it is wanting to unlock and compares that to rreq->no_unlock_folio so that it doesn't unlock a folio being read for netfs_perform_write() or netfs_write_begin().

However, given that netfs_unlock_abandoned_read_pages() is called after NETFS_RREQ_IN_PROGRESS is cleared, the one folio that it's not allowed to dereference is the one specified by ->no_unlock_folio as ownership immediately reverts to the caller.

Fix this by storing the folio pointer instead and using that rather than the index. Also fix netfs_unlock_read_folio() where the same applies.

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