Security Advisory

CVE-2026-31435

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-04-22 13:53:35
Last updated 2026-05-11 22:08:39
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix read abandonment during retry Under certain circumstances, all the remaining subrequests from a read request will get abandoned during retry. The abandonment process expects the subreq variable to be set to the place to start abandonment from, but it doesnt always have a useful value (it will be uninitialised on the first pass through the loop and it may point to a deleted subrequest on later passes). Fix the first jump to "abandon:" to set subreq to the start of the first subrequest expected to need retry (which, in this abandonment case, turned out unexpectedly to no longer have NEED_RETRY set). Also clear the subreq pointer after discarding superfluous retryable subrequests to cause an oops if we do try to access it.