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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53060" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:04.872Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:04.872Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53060" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53060.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53060" title: "dm cache metadata: fix memory leak on metadata abort retry" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm cache metadata: fix memory leak on metadata abort retry\n\nWhen failing to acquire the root_lock in dm_cache_metadata_abort because\nthe block_manager is read-only, the temporary block_manager created\noutside the root_lock is not properly released, causing a memory leak.\n\nReproduce steps:\n\nThis can be reproduced by reloading a new table while the metadata\nis read-only. While the second call to dm_cache_metadata_abort is\ncaused by lack of support for table preload in dm-cache, mentioned\nin commit 9b1cc9f251af (\"dm cache: share cache-metadata object across\ninactive and active DM tables\"), it exposes the memory leak in\ndm_cache_metadata_abort when the function is called multiple times.\nSpecifically, dm-cache fails to sync the new cache object's mode during\npreresume, creating the reproducer condition.\n\nThis issue could also occur through concurrent metadata_operation_failed\ncalls due to races in cache mode updates, but the table preload scenario\nbelow provides a reliable reproducer.\n\n1. Create a cache device with some faulty trailing metadata blocks\n\ndmsetup create cmeta \u003c\u003cEOF\n0 200 linear /dev/sdc 0\n200 7992 error\nEOF\ndmsetup create cdata --table \"0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192\"\ndmsetup create corig --table \"0 262144 linear /dev/sdc 262144\"\ndd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct\ndmsetup create cache --table \"0 131072 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \\\n/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 1 writethrough smq 0\"\n\n2. Suspend and resume the cache to start a new metadata transaction and\n trigger metadata io errors on the next metadata commit.\n\ndmsetup suspend cache\ndmsetup resume cache\n\n3. Write to the cache device to update metadata\n\nfio --filename=/dev/mapper/cache --name test --rw=randwrite --bs=4k \\\n--randrepeat=0 --direct=1 --size 64k\n\n4. Preload the same table\n\ndmsetup reload cache --table \"$(dmsetup table cache)\"\n\n5. Resume the new table. This triggers the memory leak.\n\ndmsetup suspend cache\ndmsetup resume cache\n\nkmemleak logs:\n\n\u003csnip\u003e\nunreferenced object 0xffff8880080c2010 (size 16):\n comm \"dmsetup\", pid 132, jiffies 4294982580\n hex dump (first 16 bytes):\n 00 38 b9 07 80 88 ff ff 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5 ...\n backtrace (crc 3118f31c):\n kmemleak_alloc+0x28/0x40\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3d9/0x510\n dm_block_manager_create+0x51/0x140\n dm_cache_metadata_abort+0x85/0x320\n metadata_operation_failed+0x103/0x1e0\n cache_preresume+0xacd/0xe70\n dm_table_resume_targets+0xd3/0x320\n __dm_resume+0x1b/0xf0\n dm_resume+0x127/0x170\n\u003csnip\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b45e77b79215405bd039a690f5b06cc03e8ed27d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14f60e957f34f95a626caec76a8fae88cf4c397f"},{"version":"28d307f380df88a598bc0186d527462902d9bda1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b97cc7a42905755c56bbddc33aa8b792205caee"},{"version":"f74b7c5a85e22cd9091845e0d62a1dd89d0f855f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1a79620c419a0af1911f99c873014b30740e303"},{"version":"352b837a5541690d4f843819028cf2b8be83d424","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"15c30997dca681f90dbf2d45ee629c1828bf0c0d"},{"version":"352b837a5541690d4f843819028cf2b8be83d424","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b0bd35535bdb6f58505f3a30ee5793986943997a"},{"version":"352b837a5541690d4f843819028cf2b8be83d424","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"322a3b70368d49e39591fe9fc6c07d262128b05f"},{"version":"352b837a5541690d4f843819028cf2b8be83d424","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4311ca59a1891d33c4c8b7946f98c34f167fe833"},{"version":"352b837a5541690d4f843819028cf2b8be83d424","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"044ca491d4086dc5bf233e9fcb71db52df32f633"},{"version":"6e237cacda8b4e976849e7bff9fe7dff0e968586","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3972ae47d0ee9b5b434af5d0cca6cdfd1e239d4f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9958f5ffc44530b650fb4cc9038a4d167fa4f5c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"f472bfc95d9c9653172dbdad39219b32fabf9b92","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"bdd4e106929ac943f3226d8f03754b480701e97b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.163","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.258"},{"version":"5.15.87","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.209"},{"version":"6.1.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.175"},{"version":"4.9.337","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.303","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.270","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.229","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"6.0.18","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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