eventfs: Use children field for rcu head and add memory barriers (Linux Linux)
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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25d27d5fa8645ab61018c3efec5c69f49280ca7d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b95382da85cff3bf0f922ff0275f186abdadfce
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b80707b9e27671e10840d17c6f8f774c4ad9847
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/004f7232e49730448f91665e76bdd7dff8e0c638
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0ece16ffca7384787b692431961ce202907acf5
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Linux |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-64542
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-74605
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1372 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1286 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux d'Ubuntu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux · Linux | affected f3f41f444b321ec393edbc251e024fd62658ce55 < 25d27d5fa8645ab61018c3efec5c69f49280ca7d ; affected 704f960dbee2f1634f4b4e16f208cb16eaf41c1e < 1b95382da85cff3bf0f922ff0275f186abdadfce ; affected 704f960dbee2f1634f4b4e16f208cb16eaf41c1e < 2b80707b9e27671e10840d17c6f8f774c4ad9847 ; affected 704f960dbee2f1634f4b4e16f208cb16eaf41c1e < 004f7232e49730448f91665e76bdd7dff8e0c638 ; affected 704f960dbee2f1634f4b4e16f208cb16eaf41c1e < f0ece16ffca7384787b692431961ce202907acf5 ; affected 305c4e4d80aca2c2d9cf2ebdea56e2eca6d3a6aa |
| Linux · Linux | affected 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
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |