CVE-2026-53319
5.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-wbt: remove WARN_ON_ONCE from wbt_init_enable_default()
wbt_init_enable_default() uses WARN_ON_ONCE to check for failures from
wbt_alloc() and wbt_init(). However, both are expected failure paths:
- wbt_alloc() can return NULL under memory pressure (-ENOMEM)
- wbt_init() can fail with -EBUSY if wbt is already registered
syzbot triggers this by injecting memory allocation failures during MTD
partition creation via ioctl(BLKPG), causing a spurious warning.
wbt_init_enable_default() is a best-effort initialization called from
blk_register_queue() with a void return type. Failure simply means the
disk operates without writeback throttling, which is harmless.
Replace WARN_ON_ONCE with plain if-checks, consistent with how
wbt_set_lat() in the same file already handles these failures. Add a
pr_warn() for the wbt_init() failure to retain diagnostic information
without triggering a full stack trace.
Affected (1)
Products: Linux: Linux Kernel
Configuration A
| Vulnerable Software | Affected Versions |
|---|---|
| From 7.0 to 7.0.10 |
References (2)
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Patch
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