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        "cveId": "CVE-2026-74605",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-08-15T05:44:03.919Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-08-22T15:31:53.063Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-22T15:31:53.063Z"
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\neventfs: Use children field for rcu head and add memory barriers\n\nWhen an eventfs inode is freed, it sets ei->is_freed and then uses its\nei->list to add it to the srcu link list as the list field is a union with\nthe rcu list head. As the ei->list is used to iterate over an SRCU\nprotected list without taking the eventfs_mutex, there's nothing stopping\nthe iteration over that list to see the ei->rcu instead of the ei->list\nand it will read a corrupt target.\n\nTo fix this, change the union of the rcu list head with the children list.\nOn freeing the eventfs inode, set the is_free and execute a smp_wmb()\nbefore adding the eventfs inode to the SRCU list.\n\nOn iteration of the ei->children list, at the start, execute a smp_rmb()\nand then read the is_freed of the ei to see if the children list is still\nvalid. If is_freed is set, then the ei_child read is not valid and the\nloop should exit immediately."
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