CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-53126

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.11%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel blkcg_maybe_throttle_current() function, a missing put_disk() call on the error path causes a disk reference leak. The disk will never be freed.

Risk Assessment

The organization may experience resource exhaustion (disks not being freed), potentially leading to performance issues or failures over time.

Recommendation

Apply the patch that adds the missing put_disk() on the error path in blkcg_maybe_throttle_current().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-cgroup: fix disk reference leak in blkcg_maybe_throttle_current() Add the missing put_disk() on the error path in blkcg_maybe_throttle_current(). When blkcg lookup, blkg lookup, or blkg_tryget() fails, the function jumps to the out label which only calls rcu_read_unlock() but does not release the disk reference acquired by blkcg_schedule_throttle() via get_device(). Since current->throttle_disk is already set to NULL before the lookup, blkcg_exit() cannot release this reference either, causing the disk to never be freed. Restore the reference release that was present as blk_put_queue() in the original code but was inadvertently dropped during the conversion from request_queue to gendisk.

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