CVE-2026-64040

Summary

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

cachefiles: Fix error return when vfs_mkdir() fails

When vfs_mkdir() fails, the error code is not extracted from the returned error pointer. This causes mkdir_error to be reached with ret=0, which leads to returning ERR_PTR(0) (NULL) instead of a proper error pointer.

Fix this by extracting the error code from the error pointer when vfs_mkdir() fails.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux406fad7698f5bf21ab6b5ca195bf4b9e0b3990ed < 0940108d27c6995e02819ff832be11892f0b208baffected
LinuxLinux406fad7698f5bf21ab6b5ca195bf4b9e0b3990ed < 8a220d1c312c66194f4a33dd52d1fba42bc2b341affected
LinuxLinux6.15affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.15unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0.11 <= 7.0.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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