CVE-2026-64185 – sysfs: don’t remove existing directory on update failure

CVE ID :CVE-2026-64185

Published : July 19, 2026, 4:18 p.m. | 1 hour, 23 minutes ago

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

sysfs: don’t remove existing directory on update failure

When sysfs_update_group() is called for a named group and create_files()
fails (e.g. -ENOMEM), internal_create_group() calls kernfs_remove(kn) on
the group directory. In the update path, kn was obtained via
kernfs_find_and_get() and refers to a directory that already existed
before this call. Removing it silently destroys a sysfs group that the
caller did not create.

Only remove the directory if we created it ourselves. On update failure
the directory remains as it is left empty by remove_files() inside
create_files(), but can be repopulated by a retry.

Severity: 0.0 | NA

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