CVE-2026-89618
eventfs: Initialize ei->children and ei->list in init_ei()
Published 56 d ago · modified 19 d ago · JSON
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
eventfs: Initialize ei->children and ei->list in init_ei()
eventfs_create_dir() allocates the eventfs_inode and initializes it with init_ei(). But this does not initialize the eventfs_inode list_heads. If the eventfs_create_dir() fails due to memory pressure, it will call free_ei() before it initialized the lists, and that checks to make sure the eventfs_inode has no children. But because the list wasn't initialized, it will give a false warning.
Fix it by moving the list initialization into init_ei().
[ Rewrote change log ]
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.18% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs.
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
- Linux kernel (RSS, critical only)
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/069729282fbecfaa8a54062266c338ed23f08005
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/c480f8af173d5b19c6d9c4311df6bbe352face9e
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/5333e18e6b425fcc39c7fea89e3949a2a98bc5e4
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/76e0f85f650738d768449dbccbc7c55d05f5b609
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/1704aaaf5d22bc765c168402350d191e24e245bc
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2026-89618
- NVD: CVE-2026-89618
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