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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2026-72372

afs: Fix lack of locking around modifications of net->cells_dyn_ino

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix lack of locking around modifications of net->cells_dyn_ino Fix the lack of locking around modifications of net->cells_dyn_ino by taking net->cells_lock exclusively. This also requires to cell to be removed from net->cells_dyn_ino in afs_destroy_cell_work() rather than in afs_cell_destroy() as the latter runs in RCU cleanup context and sleeping locks cannot be taken there.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 537b0105952578531f748c7fb3ce36ae9a514784 to < 4d8a2fe8847859f4fa4e9a2fa1221c9c1158e66baffected
  • 1d0b929fc070b4115403a0a6206a0c6a62dd61f5 to < 2ffb70a8a01988046bb207b7d0af9358a8337378affected
  • 1d0b929fc070b4115403a0a6206a0c6a62dd61f5 to < e94f92fd56c553a8bf9421c3289e1b85c7c08857affected
  • 1d0b929fc070b4115403a0a6206a0c6a62dd61f5 to < 55e841836c6f4646490f7b0347192b7a92d431baaffected
  • 6.12.97 to < 6.12.101affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.15affected
  • 0 to < 6.15unaffected
  • 6.12.101 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.40 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.1.5 to ≤ 7.1.*unaffected
  • 7.2 to ≤ *unaffected

References