CVE-2026-68459 (GCVE-0-2026-68459)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:51 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:06
VLAI
Title
f2fs: fix potential deadlock in gc_merge path of f2fs_balance_fs()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix potential deadlock in gc_merge path of f2fs_balance_fs() When we mount device w/ gc_merge mount option, we may suffer below potential deadlock: Kworker GC trehad Truncator - f2fs_write_cache_pages - f2fs_write_single_data_page - f2fs_do_write_data_page - folio_start_writeback --- set writeback flag on folio - f2fs_outplace_write_data : cached folio in internal bio cache - f2fs_balance_fs - wake_up(gc_thread) : wake up gc thread to run foreground GC - finish_wait(fggc_wq) : wait on the waitqueue --- wait on GC thread to finish the work - truncate_inode_pages_range - __filemap_get_folio(, FGP_LOCK) --- lock folio - truncate_inode_partial_folio - folio_wait_writeback --- wait on writeback being cleared - do_garbage_collect - move_data_page - f2fs_get_lock_data_folio - lock on folio --- blocked on folio's lock In order to avoid such deadlock, let's call below functions to commit cached bios in GC_MERGE path of f2fs_balance_fs() as the same as we did in NOGC_MERGE path. - f2fs_submit_merged_write(sbi, DATA); - f2fs_submit_all_merged_ipu_writes(sbi);
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 351df4b201157351c7d26bf12c3eeb9dbce98854 , < 8071500a8124e5a6d47d901a8d5ffd91743107a1 (git)
Affected: 351df4b201157351c7d26bf12c3eeb9dbce98854 , < eb02f218aacb36365e0ca2339cbae81fb05d31a5 (git)
Affected: 351df4b201157351c7d26bf12c3eeb9dbce98854 , < 1436031b33fa23ab1ce7df5bc5500093413e8acf (git)
Affected: 351df4b201157351c7d26bf12c3eeb9dbce98854 , < b885c7783c19c36c7bf899492a0bffcd68afa8c7 (git)
Affected: 351df4b201157351c7d26bf12c3eeb9dbce98854 , < 89479a27fa4e1e11f378b3724944eabceb84f114 (git)
Affected: 351df4b201157351c7d26bf12c3eeb9dbce98854 , < aa807064473abd6f2cafe419fb77ea402d3e3104 (git)
Affected: 351df4b201157351c7d26bf12c3eeb9dbce98854 , < 8b4468ec023d0d1b4669dfb867588997cc03a06b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.96 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.39 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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