eventfs: Use children field for rcu head and add memory barriers (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74605
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eventfs: Use children field for rcu head and add memory barriers When an eventfs inode is freed, it sets ei->is_freed and then uses its ei->list to add it to the srcu link list as the list field is a union with the rcu list head. As the ei->list is used to iterate over an SRCU protected list without taking the eventfs_mutex, there's nothing stopping the iteration over that list to see the ei->rcu instead of the ei->list and it will read a corrupt target. To fix this, change the union of the rcu list head with the children list. On freeing the eventfs inode, set the is_free and execute a smp_wmb() before adding the eventfs inode to the SRCU list. On iteration of the ei->children list, at the start, execute a smp_rmb() and then read the is_freed of the ei to see if the children list is still valid. If is_freed is set, then the ei_child read is not valid and the loop should exit immediately.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected f3f41f444b321ec393edbc251e024fd62658ce55 < 25d27d5fa8645ab61018c3efec5c69f49280ca7d ; affected 704f960dbee2f1634f4b4e16f208cb16eaf41c1e < 1b95382da85cff3bf0f922ff0275f186abdadfce ; affected 704f960dbee2f1634f4b4e16f208cb16eaf41c1e < 2b80707b9e27671e10840d17c6f8f774c4ad9847 ; affected 704f960dbee2f1634f4b4e16f208cb16eaf41c1e < 004f7232e49730448f91665e76bdd7dff8e0c638 ; affected 704f960dbee2f1634f4b4e16f208cb16eaf41c1e < f0ece16ffca7384787b692431961ce202907acf5 ; affected 305c4e4d80aca2c2d9cf2ebdea56e2eca6d3a6aa
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.8 ; unaffected 0 < 6.8 ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.114 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.57 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.1.9 ≤ 7.1.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD