CVE-2026-98452 PUBLISHED

smb: client: clean up failed cached directory opens

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

smb: client: clean up failed cached directory opens

open_cached_dir() sends CREATE and QUERY_INFO as a compound request. If the CREATE succeeds but a later command returns an error, the function must retain the CREATE FID so common cleanup can issue SMB2_close(). It also must not treat a response error as a valid CREATE.

Validate the CREATE response before using its fields, record the FIDs, and mark the handle open before handling errors from later compound commands. Move the -EREMCHG reconnect handling before response validation so a missing response does not hide the reconnect request. Count the handle when it is marked open; confirmed close responses decrement the counter, while existing close retry behavior remains best effort on transport failures.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from b0f6df737a1c5d9d5ff90cc946205d8af46cc067 to 48958ddda3d7eee3600261e2d90671f63e055dc4 (excl.)
  • affected from b0f6df737a1c5d9d5ff90cc946205d8af46cc067 to abab661eed00fa102d3c35ddf1cce4f687e718c1 (excl.)
  • affected from b0f6df737a1c5d9d5ff90cc946205d8af46cc067 to 7c1509598a4fdfb54cb09ce33e4405bd6dbd8295 (excl.)
  • affected from b0f6df737a1c5d9d5ff90cc946205d8af46cc067 to d2ff5fb93ea83034025850266b5eed391f96b825 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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