Medium [CVE-2026-72315] fix busy dentry warning on unmount after DIO
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-72315 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat package: kernel.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix busy dentry warning on unmount after DIO Commit c68337442f03 ("cifs: Fix busy dentry used after unmounting") fixed the issue in cifs where deferred close of a file led to a dentry reference count not being released in umount, by flushing deferredclose_wq in cifs_kill_sb() to solve it.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat package: kernel.
Affected versions
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Mitigation
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