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eventfs: Free the eventfs_inode after an rcu grace period too

Published Oct 28, 2026 · Updated Oct 31, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

eventfs: Free the eventfs_inode after an rcu grace period too

tracefs_d_revalidate() reads ->is_freed of the eventfs_inode that
dentry->d_fsdata points to, and ->d_revalidate() is called in rcu
pathwalk mode with nothing but rcu_read_lock() held. The dentry itself
stays around for such a walker, but tracefs_d_release() drops its
reference to the eventfs_inode when the dentry is killed, and
release_ei() then frees it after a grace period of eventfs_srcu. An
SRCU grace period doesn't wait for rcu_read_lock() sections, so the
walker can read an eventfs_inode that is already gone.

With a pathwalk held up in tracefs_d_revalidate() while the dentry goes
away:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tracefs_d_revalidate+0x76/0x90
Read of size 1 at addr ff1100010152d8d0 by task walker/97
Call Trace:
<TASK>
tracefs_d_revalidate+0x76/0x90
lookup_fast+0x320/0x640
path_lookupat+0x160/0xb00
filename_lookup+0x1f1/0x5b0
vfs_statx+0xd7/0x3b0
vfs_fstatat+0x4d/0x90
__do_sys_newfstatat+0xa0/0x100
do_syscall_64+0x10e/0x5e0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[...]
Allocated by task 1:
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x249/0x560
eventfs_create_dir+0x7a/0x590
event_create_dir+0x2fb/0xcf0
trace_add_event_call+0xbf/0x150
[...]
Freed by task 11:
kfree+0x1db/0x5b0
srcu_invoke_callbacks+0x3a3/0x620
process_one_work+0x937/0x1810
worker_thread+0x4f1/0xd60

Before commit 8e556432477e ("eventfs: Use SRCU for freeing
eventfs_inodes") release_ei() used call_rcu(), which covered the walker,
while eventfs_iterate() needs the SRCU grace period. Wait for both and
chain call_rcu() from the SRCU callback.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.6.46 – < 6.6.161, 6.10.5 – < 6.11, 6.11 6.6.161

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 7.2.13-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.115-2 —
Debian 12 linux-6.12 6.12.115-2~deb12u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 24.04 LTS linux-bluefield No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.10 linux 7.3.0-10.10 —
Ubuntu 26.10 linux-aws +4 7.3.0-1004.4 —
Ubuntu 26.10 linux-azure-fde 7.3.0-1004.5 —
Ubuntu 26.10 linux-riscv +1 7.3.0-10.10.1 —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux +52 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +42 No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.12.115-140.210 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3448
Amazon Linux 2023 perf6.12 +11 1:6.12.115-140.210.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3448

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