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CVE-2026-74542

Low risk· EPSS 5%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the netfs subsystem has a folio_queue allocation failure during writeback, causing a warning and potential crash. A mempool and gfp_t flags passing were added to handle allocation failures.

Risk Assessment

Allocation failures can cause system instability, especially under heavy load, leading to crashes or hangs.

Recommendation

Apply the patch that adds a mempool and proper gfp_t flags passing to buffer functions to prevent crashes.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix folio_queue ENOMEM in writeback by adding a mempool Fix the handling of folio_queue allocation failure in writeback by adding a mempool and passing in gfp_t flags to the rolling buffer functions that allocate memory, using the mempool if gfp != GFP_KERNEL. This is then extended upwards and the gfp to be used for a request is stored in the netfs_io_request struct and is then used for both requests and subrequests, eliminating the sleeping loops there. The failure caused: folio != NULL WARNING: fs/netfs/write_issue.c:603 at netfs_writepages+0x883/0xa10 fs/netfs/write_issue.c:603, CPU#3: syz.0.17/5919

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