CVE-2026-46106

MEDIUM

eventfs: Hold eventfs_mutex and SRCU when remount walks events

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eventfs: Hold eventfs_mutex and SRCU when remount walks events Commit 340f0c7067a9 ("eventfs: Update all the eventfs_inodes from the events descriptor") had eventfs_set_attrs() recurse through ei->children on remount. The walk only holds the rcu_read_lock() taken by tracefs_apply_options() over tracefs_inodes, which is wrong: - list_for_each_entry over ei->children races with the list_del_rcu() in eventfs_remove_rec() -- LIST_POISON1 deref, same shape as d2603279c7d6. - eventfs_inodes are freed via call_srcu(&eventfs_srcu, ...). rcu_read_lock() does not extend an SRCU grace period, so ti->private can be reclaimed under the walk. - The writes to ei->attr race with eventfs_set_attr(), which holds eventfs_mutex. Reproducer: while :; do mount -o remount,uid=$((RANDOM%1000)) /sys/kernel/tracing; done & while :; do echo "p:kp submit_bio" > /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events echo > /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events done Wrap the events portion of tracefs_apply_options() in eventfs_remount_lock()/_unlock() that take eventfs_mutex and srcu_read_lock(&eventfs_srcu). eventfs_set_attrs() doesn't sleep so the nested rcu_read_lock() is fine; lockdep_assert_held() pins the contract. Comment in tracefs_drop_inode() said "RCU cycle" -- it is SRCU.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 2.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (21)
linux/Kernel < 6.6.140linux
linux/Kernel 6.10.0 - 6.18.30linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 7.0.7linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.88linux
Linux/Linux < 6.10
Linux/Linux 340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067 - 07004a8c4b572171934390148ee48c4175c77eed
Linux/Linux 340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067 - 44e64d8a432837308f4dda3ffe819f1ec092a0ba
Linux/Linux 340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067 - 52b109f1b875b912d4ab2c5fdd8c322d47119d9b
Linux/Linux 340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067 - ed2ad73bcb0a7a6cc934097d4853b6d5124c317e
Linux/Linux 6.10
... and 11 more
Published May 28, 2026
Tracked Since May 28, 2026