eventfs: Hold eventfs_mutex and SRCU when remount walks events (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-46106
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.12 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eventfs: Hold eventfs_mutex and SRCU when remount walks events Commit 340f0c7067a9 ("eventfs: Update all the eventfs_inodes from the events descriptor") had eventfs_set_attrs() recurse through ei->children on remount. The walk only holds the rcu_read_lock() taken by tracefs_apply_options() over tracefs_inodes, which is wrong: - list_for_each_entry over ei->children races with the list_del_rcu() in eventfs_remove_rec() -- LIST_POISON1 deref, same shape as d2603279c7d6. - eventfs_inodes are freed via call_srcu(&eventfs_srcu, ...). rcu_read_lock() does not extend an SRCU grace period, so ti->private can be reclaimed under the walk. - The writes to ei->attr race with eventfs_set_attr(), which holds eventfs_mutex. Reproducer: while :; do mount -o remount,uid=$((RANDOM%1000)) /sys/kernel/tracing; done & while :; do echo "p:kp submit_bio" > /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events echo > /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events done Wrap the events portion of tracefs_apply_options() in eventfs_remount_lock()/_unlock() that take eventfs_mutex and srcu_read_lock(&eventfs_srcu). eventfs_set_attrs() doesn't sleep so the nested rcu_read_lock() is fine; lockdep_assert_held() pins the contract. Comment in tracefs_drop_inode() said "RCU cycle" -- it is SRCU.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 7ec535ed8724d18ae4e714d2277a5b89450659d2 < ae9cd0b46b1890040006a2fc5e905c5d6053fd02 ; affected 340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067 < 44e64d8a432837308f4dda3ffe819f1ec092a0ba ; affected 340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067 < 52b109f1b875b912d4ab2c5fdd8c322d47119d9b ; affected 340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067 < ed2ad73bcb0a7a6cc934097d4853b6d5124c317e ; affected 340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067 < 07004a8c4b572171934390148ee48c4175c77eed ; affected 99b86d85f7c73d676c50e8c35748f94dd41389da
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.10 ; unaffected 0 < 6.10 ; unaffected 6.6.140 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.88 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.30 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.0.7 ≤ 7.0.*

Sources

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