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LIN1023-24272 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2026-46129

Created: May 29, 2026    Updated: Jun 9, 2026
Found In Version: 10.23.30.2
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 23
Component/s: Kernel

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  btrfs: fix double free in create_space_info() error path  When kobject_init_and_add() fails, the call chain is:  create_space_info() -> btrfs_sysfs_add_space_info_type() -> kobject_init_and_add() -> failure -> kobject_put(&space_info->kobj) -> space_info_release() -> kfree(space_info)  Then control returns to create_space_info():  btrfs_sysfs_add_space_info_type() returns error -> goto out_free -> kfree(space_info)  This causes a double free.  Keep the direct kfree(space_info) for the earlier failure path, but after btrfs_sysfs_add_space_info_type() has called kobject_put(), let the kobject release callback handle the cleanup.