Riskcovery

CVE-2026-72355

netfs: Fix barriering when walking subrequest list

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Sep 21, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

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

netfs: Fix barriering when walking subrequest list

Fix the barriering used when walking the subrequest list in retry as there's a possibility of seeing a subreq that's just been added by the application thread.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a4068 to before 4cca4b44e561a19c77cb1949ae6846da0539db40Affected
  • 288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a4068 to before be47c047250671c9225c0319ca4695be9b391c59Affected
  • 288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a4068 to before 5c6ce05e406520290c1d89da97fb3cd70c09137dAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.10Affected
  • before 6.10Not affected
  • 6.18.53 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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