CVE-2026-93795

blk-cgroup: fix leaks and online flag on radix_tree_insert failure

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 24, 2026
Updated
Oct 3, 2026
Reserved
Sep 18, 2026

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Description

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

blk-cgroup: fix leaks and online flag on radix_tree_insert failure

When radix_tree_insert() fails in blkg_create(), the error path has two issues:

1. blkg->online is set to true unconditionally, even when the blkg was never fully inserted. Move the assignment inside the success block.

2. The error path calls blkg_put() without first calling percpu_ref_kill(). Because the refcount is still in percpu mode, percpu_ref_put() only does this_cpu_sub() without checking for zero, so blkg_release() is never triggered. This permanently leaks the blkg memory, its percpu iostat, policy data, the parent blkg reference, and the cgroup css reference — the latter preventing the cgroup from ever being destroyed.

Fix by replacing blkg_put() with percpu_ref_kill(), matching the pattern used in blkg_destroy().

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 7fcf2b033b84e261dca283bc2911aaea4b07b525 to before 0f840db042caee9d2f3dcdcf97d6674f6e4c1e30Affected
  • 7fcf2b033b84e261dca283bc2911aaea4b07b525 to before f53945d7c712efe63fadbcc5ffed6370871fd0d3Affected
  • 7fcf2b033b84e261dca283bc2911aaea4b07b525 to before ada8270ccdb6f212da5eb22614c28ea418746a4aAffected
  • 7fcf2b033b84e261dca283bc2911aaea4b07b525 to before c3650be82ef6e7af13b79b2d10a7363bdf54aa7fAffected
  • 7fcf2b033b84e261dca283bc2911aaea4b07b525 to before 6e85f02d45b5977c0326a8d854c6db878aa6b34aAffected
  • 7fcf2b033b84e261dca283bc2911aaea4b07b525 to before 4c0d150fb98ea40760611979f4e664c244b20966Affected
  • 7fcf2b033b84e261dca283bc2911aaea4b07b525 to before dbbca20764382b4d411ec2918f4e278ffe547accAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.0Affected
  • before 5.0Not affected
  • 5.10.271 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.222 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.189 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.158 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.111 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.53 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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