virtio-fs: avoid double-free on failed queue setup (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-93827
HIGH 8.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.14 % · percentile 3 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-fs: avoid double-free on failed queue setup virtio_fs_setup_vqs() allocates fs->vqs and fs->mq_map before calling virtio_find_vqs(). If virtio_find_vqs() fails, the error path frees both pointers and returns an error to virtio_fs_probe(). virtio_fs_probe() then drops the last kobject reference, and virtio_fs_ktype_release() frees fs->vqs and fs->mq_map again. This leaves dangling pointers in struct virtio_fs and can trigger a double-free during probe failure cleanup. Set fs->vqs and fs->mq_map to NULL immediately after kfree() in the virtio_fs_setup_vqs() error path so that the later kobject release sees an uninitialized state and kfree(NULL) becomes harmless. This can be reproduced when a broken virtio-fs device advertises more request queues than the transport actually provides. In that case virtio_find_vqs() fails while setting up the extra queue, and the probe path reaches the double-free cleanup sequence.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected a8f62f50b4e4ea92a938fca2ec1bd108d7f210e9 < 3fbc5ee776fefbc6ea34d2518f1f5f90aa2e1dad ; affected a8f62f50b4e4ea92a938fca2ec1bd108d7f210e9 < 20ef4739b329bb09cff11dd2458795a50674658e ; affected a8f62f50b4e4ea92a938fca2ec1bd108d7f210e9 < 6af3330ec5d5fb8c06c04eb520a71cf73ea5a765
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.9 ; unaffected 0 < 6.9 ; unaffected 6.12.111 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.53 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.2 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD