CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-53126
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-06-24
- Last modified
- 2026-07-23
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-cgroup: fix disk reference leak in blkcg_maybe_throttle_current()
Add the missing put_disk() on the error path in
blkcg_maybe_throttle_current(). When blkcg lookup, blkg lookup, or
blkg_tryget() fails, the function jumps to the out label which only
calls rcu_read_unlock() but does not release the disk reference acquired
by blkcg_schedule_throttle() via get_device(). Since current->throttle_disk
is already set to NULL before the lookup, blkcg_exit() cannot release
this reference either, causing the disk to never be freed.
Restore the reference release that was present as blk_put_queue() in the
original code but was inadvertently dropped during the conversion from
request_queue to gendisk.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.3 < 6.6.141)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.91)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.10)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/000e8454692cab9d1f1b80130e2870e355301d06 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23308af722fefed00af5f238024c11710938fba3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4048ed98860d3785645ebbd34f69566a6c7320c3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73a5af059905d171b398c8b2381632ee499948b5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3e005f16cd98f815429a87aef4c61e9c140779f Patch