CVE-2026-23205

Summary

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

smb/client: fix memory leak in smb2_open_file()

Reproducer:

1. server: directories are exported read-only
2. client: mount -t cifs //${server_ip}/export /mnt
3. client: dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/file bs=512 count=1000 oflag=direct
4. client: umount /mnt
5. client: sleep 1
6. client: modprobe -r cifs

The error message is as follows:

============================================================================= BUG cifs_small_rq (Not tainted): Objects remaining on __kmem_cache_shutdown()

Object 0x00000000d47521be @offset=14336 … WARNING: mm/slub.c:1251 at __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x34e/0x440, CPU#0: modprobe/1577 … Call Trace: <TASK> kmem_cache_destroy+0x94/0x190 cifs_destroy_request_bufs+0x3e/0x50 [cifs] cleanup_module+0x4e/0x540 [cifs] __se_sys_delete_module+0x278/0x400 __x64_sys_delete_module+0x5f/0x70 x64_sys_call+0x2299/0x2ff0 do_syscall_64+0x89/0x350 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e … kmem_cache_destroy cifs_small_rq: Slab cache still has objects when called from cifs_destroy_request_bufs+0x3e/0x50 [cifs] WARNING: mm/slab_common.c:532 at kmem_cache_destroy+0x16b/0x190, CPU#0: modprobe/1577

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/743f70406264348c0830f38409eb6c40a42fb2db
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a6d6b332f92990958602c1e35ce0173e2dd62e9
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b64e3b5d8d759dd4333992e4ba4dadf9359952c8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ee608a64e37cea5b4b13e436c559dd0fb2ad1b5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3a43633023e3cacaca60d4b8972d084a2b06236

• ←Previous
• Next→