CVE-2026-31435
netfs: Fix read abandonment during retry
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.8 High
- Published
- Apr 22, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 19, 2026
- Reserved
- Mar 9, 2026
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 8.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Linux |
Weaknesses
- CWE-457 Use of Uninitialized Variable
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
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