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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74372"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:58:52.306Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:18:07.752Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74372"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74372.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74372"
title: "raid1: fix nr_pending leak in REQ_ATOMIC bad-block error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nraid1: fix nr_pending leak in REQ_ATOMIC bad-block error path\n\nIn raid1_write_request(), each per-mirror loop iteration begins by\nincrementing rdev-\u003enr_pending. If a REQ_ATOMIC write encounters a\nbadblock within the requested range, the code jumps to err_handle\nwithout dropping the reference taken for the current mirror.\n\nerr_handle's cleanup loop will only decrements for k \u003c i and\nr1_bio-\u003ebios[k] is non-NULL. The current slot is therefore skipped,\nleaving its nr_pending reference leaked permanently. The reference\nprevents the rdev from ever being removed, since raid1_remove_conf()\nrefuses to remove an rdev with nr_pending \u003e 0.\n\nFix this by calling rdev_dec_pending() before jumping to err_handle."
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