Improper Update of Reference Count The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libperf (opens in a new tab)
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- published20 Aug 2026
- disclosed15 Aug 2026
Introduced: 15 Aug 2026
CVE-2026-72440 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libperf package and not the libperf package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md/raid1: fix writes_pending and barrier reference leaks on write failures
raid1_make_request() acquires a writes_pending reference with md_write_start() before calling raid1_write_request(). Several failure paths in raid1_write_request() complete the bio and return without reaching the normal write completion path, causing the corresponding md_write_end() to be skipped.
Make raid1_write_request() return a status indicating whether the write request was successfully queued. This allows raid1_make_request() to call md_write_end() when raid1_write_request() fails.
Additionally, if wait_blocked_rdev() fails after wait_barrier() succeeds, the associated barrier reference is not released.
Call allow_barrier() before returning from that path to keep the barrier accounting balanced.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2516713
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-72440
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e065a1602511282fc0da2dc89445e0eb71a681c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bffbbfcbd9393e315a7a4286dcd70e875265db9a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a450460687919e79b5f8503bdeb13ecf4cca311
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/921e2baa626d1504bf30295816aaeb90ac8c82f4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a846affa813013204d0cce0cfdaeb99e8fcce188
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/874f54243d881fde1890849000beb88a7880d1ec