CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64473
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-08-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfio: Remove device debugfs before releasing devres
VFIO device debugfs files created with debugfs_create_devm_seqfile()
store a devres allocated debugfs_devm_entry as inode private data.
vfio_unregister_group_dev() currently calls vfio_device_del() before
vfio_device_debugfs_exit(), but device_del() releases devres. This can
leave debugfs entries visible with stale inode private data while
unregister waits for userspace references to drain.
Remove the per-device debugfs tree before vfio_device_del(). The debugfs
view is diagnostic only, so losing it at the start of unregister is
preferable to preserving entries whose backing storage may already have
been released.
Complete the teardown by clearing the per-device debugfs root after
removal. This matches the global debugfs root cleanup and prevents
future users from mistaking a removed dentry for a live debugfs tree
during the remainder of unregister.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cc60b41d61657dc469893d14e8e55d160056ff1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a53109ffb6b5148e11a27fb7670355b92db12dd3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5df401dc84f091e20b045560569f0736758fea7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc7fe87de492ea7f33a72b78d26650b75bf37f4f git.kernel.org