CVE-2026-93795

Summary

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

blk-cgroup: fix leaks and online flag on radix_tree_insert failure

When radix_tree_insert() fails in blkg_create(), the error path has two issues:

1. blkg->online is set to true unconditionally, even when the blkg was never fully inserted. Move the assignment inside the success block.

2. The error path calls blkg_put() without first calling percpu_ref_kill(). Because the refcount is still in percpu mode, percpu_ref_put() only does this_cpu_sub() without checking for zero, so blkg_release() is never triggered. This permanently leaks the blkg memory, its percpu iostat, policy data, the parent blkg reference, and the cgroup css reference — the latter preventing the cgroup from ever being destroyed.

Fix by replacing blkg_put() with percpu_ref_kill(), matching the pattern used in blkg_destroy().

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e85f02d45b5977c0326a8d854c6db878aa6b34a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c0d150fb98ea40760611979f4e664c244b20966
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbbca20764382b4d411ec2918f4e278ffe547acc

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