CVE-2026-74369

liveupdate: fix u-a-f in luo_file_unpreserve_files() and luo_file_finish()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Aug 15, 2026

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Description

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

liveupdate: fix u-a-f in luo_file_unpreserve_files() and luo_file_finish()

In luo_file_unpreserve_files() and luo_file_finish(), reorder module_put() and xa_erase() to ensure the file handler module remains pinned while its operations are being accessed.

Specifically, luo_get_id() dereferences fh->ops->get_id, so the module reference must be held until after xa_erase() (which calls luo_get_id) completes.

For luo_file_finish(), this requires moving the module_put() call out of the luo_file_finish_one() helper and into the main loop of luo_file_finish() itself.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 00d0b372374f2528394aabf7b1f53f8dafe294de to before f7fca3db635022429382cf26e5b08b33558e375dAffected
  • 00d0b372374f2528394aabf7b1f53f8dafe294de to before 291dcd37c8c8f8f8e1bccc92228f44bf371762a8Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 7.1Affected
  • before 7.1Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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