Security Advisory

CVE-2026-72372

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-15 05:56:07

Last updated 2026-08-17 05:43:25

Assigner Linux

CVSS score 7.8

State PUBLISHED

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.

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