CVE-2026-23205

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

smb/client: fix memory leak in smb2_open_file()

Reproducer:

  1. server: directories are exported read-only
  2. client: mount -t cifs //${server_ip}/export /mnt
  3. client: dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/file bs=512 count=1000 oflag=direct
  4. client: umount /mnt
  5. client: sleep 1
  6. client: modprobe -r cifs

The error message is as follows:

  =============================================================================
  BUG cifs_small_rq (Not tainted): Objects remaining on __kmem_cache_shutdown()
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Object 0x00000000d47521be @offset=14336
  ...
  WARNING: mm/slub.c:1251 at __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x34e/0x440, CPU#0: modprobe/1577
  ...
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   kmem_cache_destroy+0x94/0x190
   cifs_destroy_request_bufs+0x3e/0x50 [cifs]
   cleanup_module+0x4e/0x540 [cifs]
   __se_sys_delete_module+0x278/0x400
   __x64_sys_delete_module+0x5f/0x70
   x64_sys_call+0x2299/0x2ff0
   do_syscall_64+0x89/0x350
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
  ...
  kmem_cache_destroy cifs_small_rq: Slab cache still has objects when called from cifs_destroy_request_bufs+0x3e/0x50 [cifs]
  WARNING: mm/slab_common.c:532 at kmem_cache_destroy+0x16b/0x190, CPU#0: modprobe/1577