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        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-08-26T14:34:25.794Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-09-04T15:13:31.761Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T08:44:04.686Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring/cmd: fix iovec leak when the async cmd is not recycled\n\nAn io_async_cmd carries an iovec array in ->vec.iovec, allocated when the\nvec has to grow and kept across recycling through ctx->cmd_cache.  On two\npaths nothing frees it and io_clean_op()'s kfree(req->async_data) drops\nthe io_async_cmd without it.\n\nio_req_uring_cleanup() clears the async data flags only when\nio_alloc_cache_put() succeeds, and the cache holds IO_ALLOC_CACHE_MAX ==\n128 entries, so once it is full the put fails and the vec is left behind.\nAn NVMe passthrough workload gets there without doing anything unusual:\nnvme_uring_cmd_io() returns -EIOCBQUEUED, so the io_async_cmd stays\nattached for the lifetime of the command and the live object count tracks\nthe queue depth.  Above 128 the puts start failing.\n\n->cleanup is the last chance to free an inherited vec, since\nio_req_uring_cleanup() returns early for an io-wq issued command and is\nnot called at all for one completed without ever being issued.  But\nio_clean_op() calls ->cleanup only if REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP is set, and for\nuring_cmd that happens only where the vec has to grow, so a command\nreusing a large enough cached vec never sets it.  io_rw_alloc_async() and\nio_msg_alloc_async() flag an inherited vec for exactly this reason;\nio_uring_cmd_prep() does not.\n\nFlag an inherited vec in io_uring_cmd_prep(), and free the vec when the\ncache put fails, as io_req_rw_cleanup() does.\n\nThe leak is invisible under KASAN, where io_alloc_cache_vec_kasan() frees\nthe vec unconditionally."
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