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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2026-23224

erofs: fix UAF issue for file-backed mounts w/ directio option

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: erofs: fix UAF issue for file-backed mounts w/ directio option [ 9.269940][ T3222] Call trace: [ 9.269948][ T3222] ext4_file_read_iter+0xac/0x108 [ 9.269979][ T3222] vfs_iocb_iter_read+0xac/0x198 [ 9.269993][ T3222] erofs_fileio_rq_submit+0x12c/0x180 [ 9.270008][ T3222] erofs_fileio_submit_bio+0x14/0x24 [ 9.270030][ T3222] z_erofs_runqueue+0x834/0x8ac [ 9.270054][ T3222] z_erofs_read_folio+0x120/0x220 [ 9.270083][ T3222] filemap_read_folio+0x60/0x120 [ 9.270102][ T3222] filemap_fault+0xcac/0x1060 [ 9.270119][ T3222] do_pte_missing+0x2d8/0x1554 [ 9.270131][ T3222] handle_mm_fault+0x5ec/0x70c [ 9.270142][ T3222] do_page_fault+0x178/0x88c [ 9.270167][ T3222] do_translation_fault+0x38/0x54 [ 9.270183][ T3222] do_mem_abort+0x54/0xac [ 9.270208][ T3222] el0_da+0x44/0x7c [ 9.270227][ T3222] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x5c/0xf4 [ 9.270253][ T3222] el0t_64_sync+0x1bc/0x1c0 EROFS may encounter above panic when enabling file-backed mount w/ directio mount option, the root cause is it may suffer UAF in below race condition: - z_erofs_read_folio wq s_dio_done_wq - z_erofs_runqueue - erofs_fileio_submit_bio - erofs_fileio_rq_submit - vfs_iocb_iter_read - ext4_file_read_iter - ext4_dio_read_iter - iomap_dio_rw : bio was submitted and return -EIOCBQUEUED - dio_aio_complete_work - dio_complete - dio->iocb->ki_complete (erofs_fileio_ki_complete()) - kfree(rq) : it frees iocb, iocb.ki_filp can be UAF in file_accessed(). - file_accessed : access NULL file point Introduce a reference count in struct erofs_fileio_rq, and initialize it as two, both erofs_fileio_ki_complete() and erofs_fileio_rq_submit() will decrease reference count, the last one decreasing the reference count to zero will free rq.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • fb176750266a3d7f42ebdcf28e8ba40350b27847 to < ae385826840a3c8e09bf38cac90adcd690716f57affected
  • fb176750266a3d7f42ebdcf28e8ba40350b27847 to < d741534302f71c511eb0bb670b92eaa7df4a0aecaffected
  • fb176750266a3d7f42ebdcf28e8ba40350b27847 to < b2ee5e4d5446babd23ff7beb4e636be0fb3ea5aaaffected
  • fb176750266a3d7f42ebdcf28e8ba40350b27847 to < 1caf50ce4af096d0280d59a31abdd85703cd995caffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.12affected
  • 0 to < 6.12unaffected
  • 6.12.72 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.11 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 6.19.1 to ≤ 6.19.*unaffected
  • 7.0 to ≤ *unaffected

References