Unauthenticated Remote Improper Locking in Linux Linux Kernel Rates 9.8 CVSS

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-64067

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfs: Fix missing barriers when accessing stream->subrequests locklessly

The list of subrequests attached to stream->subrequests is accessed without

locks by netfs_collect_read_results() and netfs_collect_write_results(),

and then they access subreq->flags without taking a barrier after getting

the subreq pointer from the list. Relatedly, the functions that build the

list don't use any sort of write barrier when constructing the list to make

sure that the NETFS_SREQ_IN_PROGRESS flag is perceived to be set first if

no lock is taken.

Fix this by:

(1) Add a new list_add_tail_release() function that uses a release barrier

to set the pointer to the new member of the list.

(2) Add a new list_first_entry_or_null_acquire() function that uses an

acquire barrier to read the pointer to the first member in a list (or

return NULL).

(3) Use list_add_tail_release() when adding a subreq to ->subrequests.

(4) Use list_first_entry_or_null_acquire() when initially accessing the

front of the list (when an item is removed, the pointer to the new

front iterm is obtained under the same lock). (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

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