CVE-2026-64164
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: tracepoints: fix sleep while in atomic context in btrfs_sync_file()
The trace event btrfs_sync_file() is called in an atomic context (all trace
events are) and its call to dput(), which is needed due to the call to
dget_parent(), can sleep, triggering a kernel splat.
This can be reproduced by enabling the trace event and running btrfs/056
from fstests for example. The splat shown in dmesg is the following:
[53.919] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at fs/dcache.c:970
[53.947] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 32773, name: xfs_io
[53.988] preempt_count: 2, expected: 0
[53.967] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
[53.943] Preemption disabled at:
[53.944] [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
[54.078] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 32773 Comm: xfs_io Tainted: G W 7.1.0-rc1-btrfs-next-232+ #1 PREEMPT(full)
[54.070] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[54.071] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a073390-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[54.072] Call Trace:
[54.074] <TASK>
[54.076] dump_stack_lvl+0x56/0x80
[54.079] __might_resched.cold+0xd6/0x10f
[54.072] dput.part.0+0x24/0x110
[54.078] trace_event_raw_event_btrfs_sync_file+0x75/0x140 [btrfs]
[54.089] btrfs_sync_file+0x1ed/0x530 [btrfs]
[54.087] ? __handle_mm_fault+0x8ae/0xed0
[54.089] btrfs_do_write_iter+0x172/0x210 [btrfs]
[54.091] vfs_write+0x21f/0x450
[54.094] __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x8d/0xc0
[54.096] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x20c/0x670
[54.099] do_syscall_64+0x60/0xf20
[54.092] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x60/0xb0
[54.094] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
So stop using dget_parent() and dput() and access the parent dentry
directly as dentry->d_parent. This is also what ext4 is doing in
its equivalent trace event ext4_sync_file_enter().
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Affected products (2)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | — | 4a7bab35fad5251c8cb738161152578cd83b6b9c < d78b0a80eac36879ef5478707135c446920e134b, 520e8b4bcf872a534a7bf61ccf880047642df296 < 4361954f0e158af0530caa1e57f12b531be4658f, e252db8ca2a01f82d472091f35d549b313278636 < 6279992c9ba2774901c9d4dd4a481162e2534714, c09a7446aab5773f38d6abb25fce99b8e1dfbc97 < 26b2290baaf6da6add0f782a100766e686a33f4f … |
| Linux | Linux | — | 7.0, 0 < 7.0, 6.6.142 ≤ 6.6.*, 6.12.92 ≤ 6.12.* … |
References (8)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d78b0a80eac36879ef5478707135c446920e134b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4361954f0e158af0530caa1e57f12b531be4658f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6279992c9ba2774901c9d4dd4a481162e2534714
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26b2290baaf6da6add0f782a100766e686a33f4f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12a0487945c09760a5968d9333383014ea294117
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c32a7e0e3c73c1c0768556a56bd78de9f7b83780
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a96d9a85cd2240481297156b9bb72e10b7a8036
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c73370c677646e86fc4b1780fb07027bdf847375