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GHSA-249R-XF46-WJ4V

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-19 18:31 – Updated: 2026-07-19 18:31

Details

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

cachefiles: Fix error return when vfs_mkdir() fails

When vfs_mkdir() fails, the error code is not extracted from the returned error pointer. This causes mkdir_error to be reached with ret=0, which leads to returning ERR_PTR(0) (NULL) instead of a proper error pointer.

Fix this by extracting the error code from the error pointer when vfs_mkdir() fails.

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CVE-2026-64040 (GCVE-0-2026-64040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 15:39 – Updated: 2026-07-19 15:39

Title

cachefiles: Fix error return when vfs_mkdir() fails

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix error return when vfs_mkdir() fails When vfs_mkdir() fails, the error code is not extracted from the returned error pointer. This causes mkdir_error to be reached with ret=0, which leads to returning ERR_PTR(0) (NULL) instead of a proper error pointer. Fix this by extracting the error code from the error pointer when vfs_mkdir() fails.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0940108d27c6995e0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a220d1c312c66194…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 406fad7698f5bf21ab6b5ca195bf4b9e0b3990ed , < 0940108d27c6995e02819ff832be11892f0b208b (git) Affected: 406fad7698f5bf21ab6b5ca195bf4b9e0b3990ed , < 8a220d1c312c66194f4a33dd52d1fba42bc2b341 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.11 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-249R-XF46-WJ4V

CVE-2026-64040 (GCVE-0-2026-64040)

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