CVE-2026-23032

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:null_blk: fix kmemleak by releasing references to fault configfs itemsWhen CONFIG_BLK_DEV_null_BLK_FAULT_INJECTION is enabled, the null-blkdriver sets up fault injection support by creating the timeout_inject,requeue_inject, and init_hctx_fault_inject configfs items as childrenof the top-level nullbX configfs group.However, when the nullbX device is removed, the references taken tothese fault-config configfs items are not released. As a result,kmemleak reports a memory leak, for example:unreferenced object 0xc00000021ff25c40 (size 32): comm mkdir, pid 10665, jiffies 4322121578 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 69 6e 69 74 5f 68 63 74 78 5f 66 61 75 6c 74 5f init_hctx_fault_ 69 6e 6a 65 63 74 00 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 inject.......... backtrace (crc 1a018c86): __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x494/0xbd8 kvasprintf+0x74/0xf4 config_item_set_name+0xf0/0x104 config_group_init_type_name+0x48/0xfc fault_config_init+0x48/0xf0 0xc0080000180559e4 configfs_mkdir+0x304/0x814 vfs_mkdir+0x49c/0x604 do_mkdirat+0x314/0x3d0 sys_mkdir+0xa0/0xd8 system_call_exception+0x1b0/0x4f0 system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ecFix this by explicitly releasing the references to the fault-configconfigfs items when dropping the reference to the top-level nullbXconfigfs group.

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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234