CVE-2026-74379

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dax/kmem: account for partial discontiguous resource upon removal

When dev_dax_kmem_probe() partially succeeds (at least one range is mapped) but a subsequent range fails request_mem_region() or add_memory_driver_managed(), the probe silently continues, ultimately returning success, but with the corresponding range resource NULL’ed out.

dev_dax_kmem_remove() iterates over all dax_device ranges regardless of if the underlying resource exists. When remove_memory() is called later, it returns 0 because the memory was never added which causes dev_dax_kmem_remove() to incorrectly assume the (nonexistent) resource can be removed and attempts cleanup on a NULL pointer.

Fix this by skipping these ranges altogether, noting that these cases are considered success, such that the cleanup is still reached when all actually-added ranges are successfully removed.

Affected product:

Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS

Affected packages:

linux @ 5.10.259 (+1 more)

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.