CVE-2026-64062

netfs: Fix potential deadlock in write-through mode

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 19, 2026 at 03:39 PM UTC
Updated: September 2, 2026 at 09:22 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix potential deadlock in write-through mode Fix netfs_advance_writethrough() to always unlock the supplied folio and to mark it dirty if it isn't yet written to the end. Unfortunately, it can't be marked for writeback until the folio is done with as that may cause a deadlock against mmapped reads and writes. Even though it has been marked dirty, premature writeback can't occur as the caller is holding both inode->i_rwsem (which will prevent concurrent truncation, fallocation, DIO and other writes) and ictx->wb_lock (which will cause flushing to wait and writeback to skip or wait). Note that this may be easier to deal with once the queuing of folios is split from the generation of subrequests.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.10 ≤ v < 6.12.926.10 ≤ v < 6.18.346.10 ≤ v < 7.0.116.10 ≤ v < 7.16.13 ≤ v < 6.18.346.19 ≤ v < 7.0.11288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a40687.1 rc17.1 rc27.1 rc37.1 rc4
Vendor states this is fixed in 003aa0dd26c964025acd6d1213bcdbd674db2ca9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1468f39243ccb155b6d97f9a9932f610d1205d75 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b6a4ae1634b3ad2aaa05222e53d36da532852faf (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e40e9cbf3ee4d30ee9a97bd128c85500b6ad0da1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.92 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.34 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-667

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