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CVE-2026-72439 (GCVE-0-2026-72439)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:56 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:14
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Title
md/raid10: fix writes_pending leak on write request failures
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid10: fix writes_pending leak on write request failures raid10_make_request() acquires a writes_pending reference with md_write_start() before dispatching write requests. Several failure paths in raid10_write_request() complete the bio and return without reaching the normal write completion path, causing the corresponding md_write_end() to be skipped. Make raid10_write_request() return a status indicating whether the write request was successfully queued. This allows raid10_make_request() to release the writes_pending reference with md_write_end() when a write request fails.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2 , < f94031c94eaebe14a7c9e91720064de0c5a54a6c (git)
Affected: c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2 , < e045d6ed33f8faa3e3dd6dc33c62ec01e3ad275d (git)
Affected: 39db562b3fedb93978a7e42dd216b306740959f8 (git)
Affected: 5.15.111 , < 5.16 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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