Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2026-72372

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.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 537b0105952578531f748c7fb3ce36ae9a514784, 1d0b929fc070b4115403a0a6206a0c6a62dd61f5, 6.12.97

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