# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64017"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T15:39:11.989Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:28:08.507Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64017"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64017.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64017"
title: "blk-mq: pop cached request if it is usable"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblk-mq: pop cached request if it is usable\n\nWhen submitting a bio to blk-mq, if the task should sleep after peeking\na cached request, but before it pops it, the plug flushes and calls\nblk_mq_free_plug_rqs, freeing the cached_rqs. This creates a\nuse-after-free bug. Fix this by popping the cached request before any\npossible blocking calls if it is suitable for use.\n\nPopping this request first holds a queue reference, so avoid any\nserialization races with queue freezes and can safely proceed with\ndispatching that request to the driver. This potentially increases a\ntiming window from when a driver wants to freeze its queue to when\nrequests stop being dispatched. That scenario is off the fast path\nthough, and drivers need to appropriately handle requests during a\nfreeze request anyway.\n\nThe downside is the popped element needs to be individually freed when\nwe performed a bio plug merge. The cached request would have had to be\nfreed later anyway, but this patch does it inline with building the plug\nlist instead of after flushing it."
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