Bug 2516615 (CVE-2026-72482) - CVE-2026-72482 kernel: gpib: fix double decrement of descriptor_busy in command_ioctl()
Summary: CVE-2026-72482 kernel: gpib: fix double decrement of descriptor_busy in comma...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72482
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-19 18:19 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:22:01 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gpib: fix double decrement of descriptor_busy in command_ioctl()

commit d1857f8296dc ("gpib: fix use-after-free in IO ioctl handlers")
introduced a descriptor_busy reference counter to pin struct
gpib_descriptor across IO ioctl operations.  In command_ioctl(), the
error path inside the loop decrements descriptor_busy and breaks, but
execution then falls through to the unconditional decrement after the
loop, underflowing the counter to -1.

This re-enables the use-after-free that the original fix was meant to
prevent: a concurrent close_dev_ioctl() sees descriptor_busy == 0 on
an actively-used descriptor and frees it.

Remove the early decrement from the error path.  The post-loop
decrement already handles all exit paths, matching the correct pattern
used in read_ioctl() and write_ioctl().


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