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CVE-2026-53319

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.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-53319
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-06-09 07:44 UTC
Published
2026-06-26 19:41 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-26 19:41 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 41afaeeda5099d9cd07eaa7dc6c3d20c6f1dd9e9 < fd7a982657077469802594a5165bc30b9a55af70, 41afaeeda5099d9cd07eaa7dc6c3d20c6f1dd9e9 < e9b004ff83067cdf96774b45aea4b239ace99a2f
Linux Linux 7.0, 0 < 7.0, 7.0.10 ≤ 7.0.*, 7.1 ≤ *
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