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CVE-2026-72437

md/raid1: free r1_bio when REQ_NOWAIT is set and read would block on retry PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid1: free r1_bio when REQ_NOWAIT is set and read would block on retry When a read is retried, raid1_read_request() may be called with a pre-allocated r1_bio. If wait_read_barrier() fails for a REQ_NOWAIT read, the bio is completed and the function returns immediately. In this case the existing r1_bio is leaked. This fixes a leak of pre-allocated r1_bio structures for retried reads.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 5aa705039c4fca84575539bfa2b8a28454a3d2ca before d1eda529a4bf6b866d02755723ee0eb1f037a5ed; affected 5aa705039c4fca84575539bfa2b8a28454a3d2ca before c66ed3e6371f5dba8f5d8ab810d6683ddc99201e; affected 5aa705039c4fca84575539bfa2b8a28454a3d2ca before db58075bc9c2ad2731f9c063859b47104bc2e7ef; affected 5aa705039c4fca84575539bfa2b8a28454a3d2ca before 6d92dbd73d19a0622f60352ce9d9379f7a760112; affected 5aa705039c4fca84575539bfa2b8a28454a3d2ca before c6e6354295845698d2fdfa20b71fc404786f7e93; affected 5aa705039c4fca84575539bfa2b8a28454a3d2ca before 69ad6ce47f9bf2b9fe0ed69b042db993d33bbf12
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.17; unaffected 0 before 5.17; unaffected 6.1.178 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.145 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.97 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.40 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.5 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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