CVE-2026-46005 PUBLISHED

xfs: fix a resource leak in xfs_alloc_buftarg()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

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

xfs: fix a resource leak in xfs_alloc_buftarg()

In the error path, call fs_put_dax() to drop the DAX device reference.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 6f643c57d57c56d4677bc05f1fca2ef3f249797c to 82fb9da6477d08bdab954dc7bc081a41f2f9cae6 (excl.)
  • affected from 6f643c57d57c56d4677bc05f1fca2ef3f249797c to 28a6c132b8c6e5eeefa889c4fb43d65b12989d48 (excl.)
  • affected from 6f643c57d57c56d4677bc05f1fca2ef3f249797c to 5c293a1e1ef0f838772d20ae8afae4cbd87cd3f9 (excl.)
  • affected from 6f643c57d57c56d4677bc05f1fca2ef3f249797c to 5804cb507233ed767a83ac70527b2f6c4566ec75 (excl.)
  • affected from 6f643c57d57c56d4677bc05f1fca2ef3f249797c to 29a7b2614357393b176ef06ba5bc3ff5afc8df69 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.140 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.86 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.27 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.4 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1-rc1 to * (incl.)

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