CVE-2026-31400 (GCVE-0-2026-31400)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-03 15:16 – Updated: 2026-04-03 15:16
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Title
sunrpc: fix cache_request leak in cache_release
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sunrpc: fix cache_request leak in cache_release When a reader's file descriptor is closed while in the middle of reading a cache_request (rp->offset != 0), cache_release() decrements the request's readers count but never checks whether it should free the request. In cache_read(), when readers drops to 0 and CACHE_PENDING is clear, the cache_request is removed from the queue and freed along with its buffer and cache_head reference. cache_release() lacks this cleanup. The only other path that frees requests with readers == 0 is cache_dequeue(), but it runs only when CACHE_PENDING transitions from set to clear. If that transition already happened while readers was still non-zero, cache_dequeue() will have skipped the request, and no subsequent call will clean it up. Add the same cleanup logic from cache_read() to cache_release(): after decrementing readers, check if it reached 0 with CACHE_PENDING clear, and if so, dequeue and free the cache_request.
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Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 7bcd5e318876ac638c8ceade7a648e76ac8c48e1 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 41f6ba6c98a618043d2cd71030bf9a752dfab8b2 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 301670dcd098c1fe5c2fe90fb3c7a8f4814d2351 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < be5c35960e5ead70862736161836e2d1bc7352dc (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 373457de14281c1fc7cace6fc4c8a267fc176673 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 17ad31b3a43b72aec3a3d83605891e1397d0d065 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.167 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.130 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.78 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.20 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.10 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0-rc5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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