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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72440"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:56:52.662Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:44:57.263Z"
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-2026-72440"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72440.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72440"
title: "md/raid1: fix writes_pending and barrier reference leaks on write failures"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmd/raid1: fix writes_pending and barrier reference leaks on write failures\n\nraid1_make_request() acquires a writes_pending reference with\nmd_write_start() before calling raid1_write_request(). Several failure\npaths in raid1_write_request() complete the bio and return without\nreaching the normal write completion path, causing the corresponding\nmd_write_end() to be skipped.\n\nMake raid1_write_request() return a status indicating whether the write\nrequest was successfully queued. This allows raid1_make_request() to\ncall md_write_end() when raid1_write_request() fails.\n\nAdditionally, if wait_blocked_rdev() fails after wait_barrier()\nsucceeds, the associated barrier reference is not released.\n\nCall allow_barrier() before returning from that path to keep the barrier\naccounting balanced."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5aa705039c4fca84575539bfa2b8a28454a3d2ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"921e2baa626d1504bf30295816aaeb90ac8c82f4"},{"version":"5aa705039c4fca84575539bfa2b8a28454a3d2ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a846affa813013204d0cce0cfdaeb99e8fcce188"},{"version":"5aa705039c4fca84575539bfa2b8a28454a3d2ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a450460687919e79b5f8503bdeb13ecf4cca311"},{"version":"5aa705039c4fca84575539bfa2b8a28454a3d2ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bffbbfcbd9393e315a7a4286dcd70e875265db9a"},{"version":"5aa705039c4fca84575539bfa2b8a28454a3d2ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e065a1602511282fc0da2dc89445e0eb71a681c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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