CVE-2026-43106: cachefiles: fix incorrect dentry refcount in cachefiles_cull()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: fix incorrect dentry refcount in cachefiles_cull() The patch mentioned below changed cachefiles_bury_object() to expect 2 references to the 'rep' dentry. Three of the callers were changed to use start_removing_dentry() which takes an extra reference so in those cases the call gets the expected references. However there is another call to cachefiles_bury_object() in cachefiles_cull() which did not need to be changed to use start_removing_dentry() and so was not properly considered. It still passed the dentry with just one reference so the net result is that a reference is lost. To meet the expectations of cachefiles_bury_object(), cachefiles_cull() must take an extra reference before the call. It will be dropped by cachefiles_bury_object().
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.8
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 6577df7dc7a7de128442b6192c7a32195c923480 (from 7bb1eb45e43c4730cbc5a48b9e9295049fccdacb) · < 1635c2acdde86c4f555b627aec873c8677c421ed (from 7bb1eb45e43c4730cbc5a48b9e9295049fccdacb)
- Linux / Linux6.19Fixed in 0, 6.19.14, 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H