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fuse: fix uninit-value in fuse_dentry_revalidate()

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fuse: fix uninit-value in fuse_dentry_revalidate() fuse_dentry_revalidate() may be called with a dentry that didn't had ->d_time initialised. The issue was found with KMSAN, where lookup_open() calls __d_alloc(), followed by d_revalidate(), as shown below: ===================================================== BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in fuse_dentry_revalidate+0x150/0x13d0 fs/fuse/dir.c:394 fuse_dentry_revalidate+0x150/0x13d0 fs/fuse/dir.c:394 d_revalidate fs/namei.c:1030 [inline] lookup_open fs/namei.c:4405 [inline] open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4583 [inline] path_openat+0x1614/0x64c0 fs/namei.c:4827 do_file_open+0x2aa/0x680 fs/namei.c:4859 [...] Uninit was created at: slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4466 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4788 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x382/0x1280 mm/slub.c:4807 __d_alloc+0x55/0xa00 fs/dcache.c:1740 d_alloc_parallel+0x99/0x2740 fs/dcache.c:2604 lookup_open fs/namei.c:4398 [inline] open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4583 [inline] path_openat+0x135f/0x64c0 fs/namei.c:4827 do_file_open+0x2aa/0x680 fs/namei.c:4859 [...] =====================================================

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
6.18.34, 7.0.10
CVEs
CVE-2026-53311
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
7 Nov 2026, 18:52 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

fuse: fix uninit-value in fuse_dentry_revalidate()

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Jun 2026, 19:41 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fuse: fix uninit-value in fuse_dentry_revalidate() fuse_dentry_revalidate() may be called with a dentry that didn't had ->d_time initialised. The issue was found with KMSAN, where lookup_open() calls __d_alloc(), followed by d_revalidate(), as shown below: ===================================================== BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in fuse_dentry_revalidate+0x150/0x13d0 fs/fuse/dir.c:394 fuse_dentry_revalidate+0x150/0x13d0 fs/fuse/dir.c:394 d_revalidate fs/namei.c:1030 [inline] lookup_open fs/namei.c:4405 [inline] open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4583 [inline] path_openat+0x1614/0x64c0 fs/namei.c:4827 do_file_open+0x2aa/0x680 fs/namei.c:4859 [...] Uninit was created at: slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4466 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4788 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x382/0x1280 mm/slub.c:4807 __d_alloc+0x55/0xa00 fs/dcache.c:1740 d_alloc_parallel+0x99/0x2740 fs/dcache.c:2604 lookup_open fs/namei.c:4398 [inline] open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4583 [inline] path_openat+0x135f/0x64c0 fs/namei.c:4827 do_file_open+0x2aa/0x680 fs/namei.c:4859 [...] =====================================================

osv:CVE-2026-53311

Kernel

Fixed versions: 6.18.34, 7.0.10

Complete source record
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