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Unscored CVE-2026-64262 EUVD-2026-48974GHSA-fxm4-5828-j89m

fuse-uring: end fuse_req on io-uring cancel task work

Published Jul 25, 2026 · Updated Aug 17, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

fuse-uring: end fuse_req on io-uring cancel task work

When io_uring delivers task work with tw.cancel set (PF_EXITING,
PF_KTHREAD fallback, or percpu_ref_is_dying on the ring context),
fuse_uring_send_in_task() takes the cancel branch, assigns
-ECANCELED, and falls through to fuse_uring_send(). That path only
flips the entry to FRRS_USERSPACE and completes the io_uring cmd;
it never discharges the ring entry's owning reference to the
fuse_req that fuse_uring_add_req_to_ring_ent() handed it at
dispatch time.

fuse_uring_send_in_task()
tw.cancel == true
err = -ECANCELED
fuse_uring_send(ent, cmd, err, issue_flags)
ent->state = FRRS_USERSPACE
list_move(&ent->list, &queue->ent_in_userspace)
ent->cmd = NULL
io_uring_cmd_done(-ECANCELED)
/* ent->fuse_req still set, req still hashed */

The fuse_req stays linked on fpq->processing[hash] and
fuse_request_end() is never invoked. The originating syscall
thread blocks in D-state in request_wait_answer() until
fuse_abort_conn() runs, which can be the entire connection
lifetime. For FR_BACKGROUND requests fc->num_background is never
decremented either, so repeated cancels inflate the counter until
max_background is hit and all later background ops stall. tw.cancel does
not imply a connection abort (e.g. a single io_uring worker thread exits
while the fuse connection stays up), so this cannot be left for
fuse_abort_conn() to clean up.

Ending the req but still routing the entry through fuse_uring_send()
is not enough: that leaves a req-less entry on ent_in_userspace, and
ent_list_request_expired() dereferences ent->fuse_req unconditionally
on the head of that list, which would then NULL-deref.

Fix the cancel branch to release the entry directly. Remove it from the
queue, complete the io_uring cmd, end the fuse_req, free the entry, and
drop its queue_refs (waking the teardown waiter if it was the last).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.14 6.18.39

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 7.1.4-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux 7.0.0-31.31 USN-8726-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-aws 7.0.0-1012.12 USN-8726-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-azure 7.0.0-1014.14 USN-8726-4
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-gcp +1 7.0.0-1011.11 USN-8726-4, USN-8726-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-gke 7.0.0-1006.7 USN-8726-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-ibm +2 7.0.0-1013.13 USN-8727-1, USN-8726-3
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-nvidia 7.0.0-1018.18 USN-8760-2
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-nvidia-bos 7.0.0-2018.18 USN-8800-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-raspi 7.0.0-1019.19 USN-8726-2
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-riscv +1 7.0.0-31.31.1 USN-8726-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws-7.0 7.0.0-1012.12~24.04.1 USN-8726-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-7.0 7.0.0-1014.14~24.04.1 USN-8728-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-7.0 7.0.0-1013.13~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-7.0 +1 7.0.0-1011.11~24.04.1 USN-8728-3, USN-8728-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-hwe-7.0 7.0.0-31.31~24.04.1 USN-8726-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-7.0 7.0.0-1018.18~24.04.1 USN-8760-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv-7.0 7.0.0-31.31.1~24.04.1 —
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
openSUSE Tumbleweed kernel-source 7.1.7-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11476-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.18.39-79.141 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-2045
Amazon Linux 2023 perf6.18 +12 1:6.18.39-79.141.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-2045

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