CVE-2026-74379

dax/kmem: account for partial discontiguous resource upon removal

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:

dax/kmem: account for partial discontiguous resource upon removal

When dev_dax_kmem_probe() partially succeeds (at least one range is mapped) but a subsequent range fails request_mem_region() or add_memory_driver_managed(), the probe silently continues, ultimately returning success, but with the corresponding range resource NULL'ed out.

dev_dax_kmem_remove() iterates over all dax_device ranges regardless of if the underlying resource exists. When remove_memory() is called later, it returns 0 because the memory was never added which causes dev_dax_kmem_remove() to incorrectly assume the (nonexistent) resource can be removed and attempts cleanup on a NULL pointer.

Fix this by skipping these ranges altogether, noting that these cases are considered success, such that the cleanup is still reached when all actually-added ranges are successfully removed.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 60e93dc097f7f13a16a7e4b75b8803eb2adbb721 to before ef4fc53898bd6c4d0119cc6d419ebef7f2560f31Affected
  • 60e93dc097f7f13a16a7e4b75b8803eb2adbb721 to before 5d3139abb9d1671fa5e42c3d6d8cb3b05479c5bbAffected
  • 60e93dc097f7f13a16a7e4b75b8803eb2adbb721 to before d47b0b8a69a13e06afafa54723f3e8c99b0c788fAffected
  • 60e93dc097f7f13a16a7e4b75b8803eb2adbb721 to before 799e54c510a03a65a57627018a817838d72f35bdAffected
  • 60e93dc097f7f13a16a7e4b75b8803eb2adbb721 to before 598ed7393a639c7547b28ff3e14db9f1ac37c132Affected
  • 60e93dc097f7f13a16a7e4b75b8803eb2adbb721 to before 30ea97affbcce236c57287c82dc6ef7a29c63b76Affected
  • 60e93dc097f7f13a16a7e4b75b8803eb2adbb721 to before 8aa442cfce79e2d69e72fc8e0c0864ac2971149dAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.10Affected
  • before 5.10Not affected
  • 5.15.212 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.178 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not 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

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