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CVE-2026-64040

cachefiles: Fix error return when vfs_mkdir() fails PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix error return when vfs_mkdir() fails When vfs_mkdir() fails, the error code is not extracted from the returned error pointer. This causes mkdir_error to be reached with ret=0, which leads to returning ERR_PTR(0) (NULL) instead of a proper error pointer. Fix this by extracting the error code from the error pointer when vfs_mkdir() fails.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 406fad7698f5bf21ab6b5ca195bf4b9e0b3990ed before 86f4c1586418d50203ee8d76cba5d7b148719a32; affected 406fad7698f5bf21ab6b5ca195bf4b9e0b3990ed before 0940108d27c6995e02819ff832be11892f0b208b; affected 406fad7698f5bf21ab6b5ca195bf4b9e0b3990ed before 8a220d1c312c66194f4a33dd52d1fba42bc2b341
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.15; unaffected 0 before 6.15; unaffected 6.18.57 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.0.11 through 7.0.*; unaffected 7.1 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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