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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-23224 EUVD-2026-7677GHSA-8j5g-3q2r-xfjh

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

Published Feb 18, 2026 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.12 6.12.72

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.18.12-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.73-1 DSA-6141-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 linux +8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 +1 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-64kb +8 6.12.0-160000.27.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20931-1
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.27.1.160000.2.8 SUSE-SU-2026:20931-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-64kb +8 6.12.0-160000.27.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20931-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.27.1.160000.2.8 SUSE-SU-2026:20931-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.27.1.160000.2.8 SUSE-SU-2026:20838-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-rt +5 6.12.0-160000.27.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20873-1, SUSE-SU-2026:20838-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed kernel-source 6.19.8-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10387-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.27.1.160000.2.8 openSUSE-SU-2026:20416-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-rt +11 6.12.0-160000.27.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:20416-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.12.73-95.123 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1487
Amazon Linux 2023 perf6.12 +14 1:6.12.73-95.123.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1487

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-200.74.27.el10uek ELSA-2026-50160

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