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CVE-2026-64185

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysfs: don't remove existing directory on update failure When sysfs_update_group() is calle…

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysfs: don't remove existing directory on update failure When sysfs_update_group() is called for a named group and create_files() fails (e.g. -ENOMEM), internal_create_group() calls kernfs_remove(kn) on the group directory. In the update path, kn was obtained via kernfs_find_and_get() and refers to a directory that already existed before this call. Removing it silently destroys a sysfs group that the caller did not create. Only remove the directory if we created it ourselves. On update failure the directory remains as it is left empty by remove_files() inside create_files(), but can be repopulated by a retry.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 4.19 before 5.10.258
from 5.11 before 5.15.209
from 5.16 before 6.1.175
from 6.2 before 6.6.142
from 6.7 before 6.12.92
from 6.13 before 6.18.34

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