{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-72439","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2026-08-09T03:40:39.930Z","datePublished":"2026-08-15T05:56:52.023Z","dateUpdated":"2026-08-17T05:14:39.934Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-08-17T05:14:39.934Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmd/raid10: fix writes_pending leak on write request failures\n\nraid10_make_request() acquires a writes_pending reference with\nmd_write_start() before dispatching write requests. Several failure\npaths in raid10_write_request() complete the bio and return without\nreaching the normal write completion path, causing the corresponding\nmd_write_end() to be skipped.\n\nMake raid10_write_request() return a status indicating whether the write\nrequest was successfully queued. This allows raid10_make_request() to\nrelease the writes_pending reference with md_write_end() when a write\nrequest fails."}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/md/raid10.c"],"versions":[{"version":"c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2","lessThan":"f94031c94eaebe14a7c9e91720064de0c5a54a6c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2","lessThan":"e045d6ed33f8faa3e3dd6dc33c62ec01e3ad275d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"39db562b3fedb93978a7e42dd216b306740959f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.111","lessThan":"5.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/md/raid10.c"],"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"5.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.1.5","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.2","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.17","versionEndExcluding":"7.1.5"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.17","versionEndExcluding":"7.2"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.15.111"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f94031c94eaebe14a7c9e91720064de0c5a54a6c"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e045d6ed33f8faa3e3dd6dc33c62ec01e3ad275d"}],"title":"md/raid10: fix writes_pending leak on write request failures","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}