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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74605"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:31:53.063Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:46:03.903Z"
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-2026-74605"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74605.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74605"
title: "eventfs: Use children field for rcu head and add memory barriers"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\neventfs: Use children field for rcu head and add memory barriers\n\nWhen an eventfs inode is freed, it sets ei-\u003eis_freed and then uses its\nei-\u003elist to add it to the srcu link list as the list field is a union with\nthe rcu list head. As the ei-\u003elist is used to iterate over an SRCU\nprotected list without taking the eventfs_mutex, there's nothing stopping\nthe iteration over that list to see the ei-\u003ercu instead of the ei-\u003elist\nand it will read a corrupt target.\n\nTo fix this, change the union of the rcu list head with the children list.\nOn freeing the eventfs inode, set the is_free and execute a smp_wmb()\nbefore adding the eventfs inode to the SRCU list.\n\nOn iteration of the ei-\u003echildren list, at the start, execute a smp_rmb()\nand then read the is_freed of the ei to see if the children list is still\nvalid. If is_freed is set, then the ei_child read is not valid and the\nloop should exit immediately."
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