CVE-2026-53126

blk-cgroup: fix disk reference leak in blkcg_maybe_throttle_current()

published June 24, 2026

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

blk-cgroup: fix disk reference leak in blkcg_maybe_throttle_current()

Add the missing put_disk() on the error path in

blkcg_maybe_throttle_current(). When blkcg lookup, blkg lookup, or

blkg_tryget() fails, the function jumps to the out label which only

calls rcu_read_unlock() but does not release the disk reference acquired

by blkcg_schedule_throttle() via get_device(). Since current->throttle_disk

is already set to NULL before the lookup, blkcg_exit() cannot release

this reference either, causing the disk to never be freed.

Restore the reference release that was present as blk_put_queue() in the

original code but was inadvertently dropped during the conversion from

request_queue to gendisk.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00114 · 1.4th percentile
Published
2026-06-24T16:30Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 JUN 16:30Z
    blk-cgroup: fix disk reference leak in blkcg_maybe_throttle_current()
    cvelistv5