CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64359
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-09-04
- 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: reject CLEAN_SEGMENTS ioctl with out-of-range segment numbers
Syzbot reported a hung task in nilfs_transaction_begin() where multiple
tasks performing chmod() on a nilfs2 mount blocked for over 143 seconds
waiting to acquire ns_segctor_sem for read:
INFO: task syz.0.17:5918 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
Call Trace:
schedule+0x164/0x360
rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x6d9/0x940
down_read+0x99/0x2e0
nilfs_transaction_begin+0x364/0x710 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:221
nilfs_setattr+0x124/0x2c0 fs/nilfs2/inode.c:921
notify_change+0xc1a/0xf40
chmod_common+0x273/0x4a0
do_fchmodat+0x12d/0x230
The writer holding ns_segctor_sem was a concurrent
NILFS_IOCTL_CLEAN_SEGMENTS caller, stuck inside printk while emitting
per-element warnings from nilfs_sufile_updatev():
__nilfs_msg+0x373/0x450 fs/nilfs2/super.c:78
nilfs_sufile_updatev+0x21c/0x6d0 fs/nilfs2/sufile.c:186
nilfs_sufile_freev fs/nilfs2/sufile.h:93 [inline]
nilfs_free_segments fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1140 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_collect_blocks fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1261 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_do_construct+0x1f55/0x76c0
nilfs_clean_segments+0x3bd/0xa50
nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:922 [inline]
nilfs_ioctl+0x261f/0x2780
The root cause is that user-supplied segment numbers are not validated
before nilfs_clean_segments() begins doing work; the range check on
each segnum is performed deep inside the call chain by
nilfs_sufile_updatev(), which emits a nilfs_warn() per invalid entry
while still holding the segctor lock and the sufile mi_sem. Under load
(repeated invocations across multiple mounts saturating the global
printk path), the cumulative printk latency keeps ns_segctor_sem held
long enough to trip the hung_task watchdog, blocking concurrent
operations such as chmod() that need ns_segctor_sem for read.
Fix by validating the contents of kbufs[4] in nilfs_clean_segments()
immediately after acquiring ns_segctor_sem via nilfs_transaction_lock().
Holding ns_segctor_sem serializes the check against
nilfs_ioctl_resize(), which can modify ns_nsegments, so the validation
uses a consistent value. Out-of-range segment numbers are rejected
with -EINVAL before any segment-cleaning work begins, so the bad
entries never reach the per-element diagnostic path inside
nilfs_sufile_updatev().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.31 < 5.10.261)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.212)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.178)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.145)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.96)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.1.4)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0789f0a6710713254a08f3a7d2ecbb6d1cbcf0aa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e7a690fe435f8d5ea3feb7c1d8d73ba7e8b8aa9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/223463c488b0554212a94de971ea538eb2805fc7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/286f77d002a337735c0846d7480a82d9cda2aa31 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39607452b1400c7bf748f15122df4d058b768c5b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ed388ec3b8922383d1e2d4432d7bd4cbbf8364e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/876c98e0fc65f071680c03c2e2ee3ef7ff9ca078 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d26aef771b4f6923da9f89d6d5b70d8def5853de Patch