CVE-2026-64216 PUBLISHED

netfs: Fix potential UAF in netfs_unlock_abandoned_read_pages()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 24.07.2026 Updated: 24.07.2026

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

netfs: Fix potential UAF in netfs_unlock_abandoned_read_pages()

netfs_unlock_abandoned_read_pages(rreq) accesses the index of the folios it is wanting to unlock and compares that to rreq->no_unlock_folio so that it doesn't unlock a folio being read for netfs_perform_write() or netfs_write_begin().

However, given that netfs_unlock_abandoned_read_pages() is called after NETFS_RREQ_IN_PROGRESS is cleared, the one folio that it's not allowed to dereference is the one specified by ->no_unlock_folio as ownership immediately reverts to the caller.

Fix this by storing the folio pointer instead and using that rather than the index. Also fix netfs_unlock_read_folio() where the same applies.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e to 6080fa3ecfbb4448a3b47368629534c09b6ec750 (excl.)
  • affected from ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e to 3866d015f33aeedf81338dd99154703bef33faef (excl.)
  • affected from ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e to dbe556972100fabb8e5a1b3d2163831ff07b1e8e (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.34 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.11 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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