CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-46061
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-667
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jbd2: fix deadlock in jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke()
Commit f76d4c28a46a ("fs/jbd2: use sleeping version of
__find_get_block()") changed jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke() to use
__find_get_block_nonatomic() which holds the folio lock instead of
i_private_lock. This breaks the lock ordering (folio -> buffer) and
causes an ABBA deadlock when the filesystem blocksize < pagesize:
T1 T2
ext4_mkdir()
ext4_init_new_dir()
ext4_append()
ext4_getblk()
lock_buffer() <- A
sync_blockdev()
blkdev_writepages()
writeback_iter()
writeback_get_folio()
folio_lock() <- B
ext4_journal_get_create_access()
jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke()
__find_get_block_nonatomic()
folio_lock() <- B
block_write_full_folio()
lock_buffer() <- A
This can occasionally cause generic/013 to hang.
Fix by only calling __find_get_block_nonatomic() when the passed
buffer_head doesn't belong to the bdev, which is the only case that we
need to look up its bdev alias. Otherwise, the lookup is redundant since
the found buffer_head is equal to the one we passed in.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12.31 < 6.12.86)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.14.9 < 6.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.15.1 < 6.18.27)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.4)
• linux linux kernel 6.15
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b2fee890250ab647a601124471a334bb01a0790 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/981fcc5674e67158d24d23e841523eccba19d0e7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbd943d6a2d566428324b516a37f98328dfb802d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dff07cc98fdf6af57a7c054dc09b2050a9d5c287 Patch