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CVE-2026-64419

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show() Reading the debugfs "count" file of a memcg-aware shrinker can sleep inside an RCU read-side critical section: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:421 RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0 css_rstat_flush mem_cgroup_flush_stats zswap_shrinker_count shrinker_debugfs_count_show shrinker_debugfs_count_show() invokes the ->count_objects() callback under rcu_read_lock(). The zswap callback flushes memcg stats via css_rstat_flush(), which may sleep, so it must not run under RCU. The RCU lock is not needed here. mem_cgroup_iter() takes RCU internally and returns a memcg holding a css reference (dropped on the next iteration or by mem_cgroup_iter_break()), so the memcg stays alive without it. The shrinker is kept alive by the open debugfs file: shrinker_free() removes the debugfs entries via debugfs_remove_recursive(), which waits for in-flight readers to drain, before call_rcu(..., shrinker_free_rcu_cb). The sibling "scan" handler already invokes the sleeping ->scan_objects() callback with no RCU section. Drop the rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-64419
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-07-19 15:36 UTC
Published
2026-07-25 08:50 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-25 08:50 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 5035ebc644aec92d55d1bbfe042f35341e4bffb5 < de5f69b8dae8698ac5e48dfcd30017887cdf4e5a, 5035ebc644aec92d55d1bbfe042f35341e4bffb5 < e441cbfbd0eaa6404278e985033c33caba4db767, 5035ebc644aec92d55d1bbfe042f35341e4bffb5 < 2fed79f0fe8c8d28a972c290dbfd693c3546c8c4, 5035ebc644aec92d55d1bbfe042f35341e4bffb5 < 560e21e8ccff813e84d05f6500907c549a3d6985 …
Linux Linux 6.0, 0 < 6.0, 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.*, 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.* …
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