CVE-2026-64059

netfs: Fix folio->private handling in netfs_perform_write()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 19, 2026
Updated
Jul 19, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfs: Fix folio->private handling in netfs_perform_write()

Under some circumstances, netfs_perform_write() doesn't correctly manipulate folio->private between NULL, NETFS_FOLIO_COPY_TO_CACHE, pointing to a group and pointing to a netfs_folio struct, leading to potential multiple attachments of private data with associated folio ref leaks and also leaks of netfs_folio structs or netfs_group refs.

Fix this by consolidating the place at which a folio is marked uptodate in one place and having that look at what's attached to folio->private and decide how to clean it up and then set the new group. Also, the content shouldn't be flushed if group is NULL, even if a group is specified in the netfs_group parameter, as that would be the case for a new folio. A filesystem should always specify netfs_group or never specify netfs_group.

The Sashiko auto-review tool noted that it was theoretically possible that the fpos >= ctx->zero_point section might leak if it modified a streaming write folio. This is unlikely, but with a network filesystem, third party changes can happen. It also pointed out that __netfs_set_group() would leak if called multiple times on the same folio from the "whole folio modify section".

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8f52de0077ba3bf41e5d53d67a185700f41efce7 to before 7f040243c74d72b45b22246c7d9e621fbeab44acAffected
  • 8f52de0077ba3bf41e5d53d67a185700f41efce7 to before 551b5c71ee312ca7646ddb605231c1016e8cbb18Affected
  • 8f52de0077ba3bf41e5d53d67a185700f41efce7 to before 0969ea8370bad0e4fb6131b6a7bed9e7ec522ac7Affected
  • 8f52de0077ba3bf41e5d53d67a185700f41efce7 to before ccde2ac757c713535b224233a296de40efe5212dAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.12Affected
  • before 6.12Not affected
  • 6.12.92 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.34 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.11 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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