CVE-2026-31435: netfs: Fix read abandonment during retry
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix read abandonment during retry Under certain circumstances, all the remaining subrequests from a read request will get abandoned during retry. The abandonment process expects the 'subreq' variable to be set to the place to start abandonment from, but it doesn't always have a useful value (it will be uninitialised on the first pass through the loop and it may point to a deleted subrequest on later passes). Fix the first jump to "abandon:" to set subreq to the start of the first subrequest expected to need retry (which, in this abandonment case, turned out unexpectedly to no longer have NEED_RETRY set). Also clear the subreq pointer after discarding superfluous retryable subrequests to cause an oops if we do try to access it.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 8.8
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 3e5fd8f53b575ff2188f82071da19c977ca56c41 (from ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e) · < 8f2f2bd128a8d9edbc1e785760da54ada3df69b7 (from ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e) · < 7e57523490cd2efb52b1ea97f2e0a74c0fb634cd (from ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e)
- Linux / Linux6.12Fixed in 0, 6.18.21, 6.19.11, 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H