CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-74542
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfs: Fix folio_queue ENOMEM in writeback by adding a mempool
Fix the handling of folio_queue allocation failure in writeback by adding a
mempool and passing in gfp_t flags to the rolling buffer functions that
allocate memory, using the mempool if gfp != GFP_KERNEL.
This is then extended upwards and the gfp to be used for a request is stored
in the netfs_io_request struct and is then used for both requests and
subrequests, eliminating the sleeping loops there.
The failure caused:
folio != NULL
WARNING: fs/netfs/write_issue.c:603 at netfs_writepages+0x883/0xa10 fs/netfs/write_issue.c:603, CPU#3: syz.0.17/5919
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15ed8a9b7c63e9171f5139a6aaa1ffb61809861f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d78d56c43ef3768183e8370e7367b162700e049 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f6d7f8a5416d852648d15a05e895f1195ee8a85 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b343252d6f536203dd0660f676190dcbf6d2ecdc git.kernel.org