Riskcovery

CVE-2026-72364

netfs: Fix writeback error handling

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

Read the record on cve.org

Description

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

netfs: Fix writeback error handling

Fix the error handling in writeback_iter() loop. If an error occurs, writeback_iter() needs to be called again with *error set to the error so that it can clean up iteration state. Further, the current folio needs unlocking and redirtying.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a4068 to before fb39ffd3cc5422887fd118668ff45ebfdbc83302Affected
  • 288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a4068 to before 1bb33d959aabcde07d724b5eb9992462e91fa79aAffected
  • 288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a4068 to before 89df9c158a25d0a7c6ca079a9bd9ca7009d75c7bAffected
  • 288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a4068 to before ac5f95ac5d6d0f4c567b8b642825705a2bf0d79eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.10Affected
  • before 6.10Not affected
  • 6.12.97 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.