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CVE-2026-46129

btrfs: fix double free in create_space_info() error path

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Fix
Fixed in 6.1.175, 6.6.140, 6.12.88, 6.18.30
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix double free in create_space_info() error path When kobject_init_and_add() fails, the call chain is: create_space_info() -> btrfs_sysfs_add_space_info_type() -> kobject_init_and_add() -> failure -> kobject_put(&space_info->kobj) -> space_info_release() -> kfree(space_info) Then control returns to create_space_info(): btrfs_sysfs_add_space_info_type() returns error -> goto out_free -> kfree(space_info) This causes a double free. Keep the direct kfree(space_info) for the earlier failure path, but after btrfs_sysfs_add_space_info_type() has called kobject_put(), let the kobject release callback handle the cleanup.

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 6.1.162 · fixed in 6.1.175; From 6.6.122 · fixed in 6.6.140; From 6.12.67 · fixed in 6.12.88; From 6.18.7 · fixed in 6.18.30

  • Linux Linux

    6.19

References 6

git.kernel.org