CVE-2026-72453

Summary

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

regcache: Do not overwrite error code when finalizing cache after error

During regcache initialization, if an error occurs in the cache_ops->populate callback, and if cache operations include an exit callback, the error code from populate() is overwritten with the return value from exit(). This hides the error condition from the caller of regcache_init(), and can cause NULL pointer dereferences when the regcache is later accessed.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux94a3a95f03154d8d4c6206950a7f6ef9a30baec6 < 9f171aa115ec76be02c76c5765cd2c865279e34aaffected
LinuxLinux94a3a95f03154d8d4c6206950a7f6ef9a30baec6 < 9108f7fa493b4c88cbc09503e0c164244456bad5affected
LinuxLinux6.19affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.19unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.5 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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