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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93073"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:10:56.405Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:05:09.113Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-93073"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93073.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93073"
title: "dax: read holder_ops once in dax_holder_notify_failure()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndax: read holder_ops once in dax_holder_notify_failure()\n\ndax_holder_notify_failure() reads dax_dev-\u003eholder_ops twice without\nREAD_ONCE() -- once for the NULL check and once for the indirect\nnotify_failure() call. A concurrent fs_put_dax() can clear holder_ops\nbetween the two reads, so the check can observe a non-NULL pointer while\nthe call dereferences NULL. (kill_dax() also clears holder_ops, but only\nafter synchronize_srcu(), so it cannot race a reader that is inside\ndax_read_lock(); fs_put_dax() does no such synchronization.)\n\nFetch holder_ops once into a local with READ_ONCE() so the NULL check and\nthe indirect call observe the same value."
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