CVE-2026-31435 (GCVE-0-2026-31435)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-22 13:53
Modified
2026-08-05 12:22
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix read abandonment during retry Under certain circumstances, all the remaining subrequests from a read request will get abandoned during retry. The abandonment process expects the 'subreq' variable to be set to the place to start abandonment from, but it doesn't always have a useful value (it will be uninitialised on the first pass through the loop and it may point to a deleted subrequest on later passes). Fix the first jump to "abandon:" to set subreq to the start of the first subrequest expected to need retry (which, in this abandonment case, turned out unexpectedly to no longer have NEED_RETRY set). Also clear the subreq pointer after discarding superfluous retryable subrequests to cause an oops if we do try to access it.
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Linux Linux Version: ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e
Version: ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e
Version: ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e
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