5.5

CVE-2026-64419

mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show()

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

mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show()

Reading the debugfs "count" file of a memcg-aware shrinker can sleep
inside an RCU read-side critical section:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:421
  RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
   css_rstat_flush
   mem_cgroup_flush_stats
   zswap_shrinker_count
   shrinker_debugfs_count_show

shrinker_debugfs_count_show() invokes the ->count_objects() callback under
rcu_read_lock().  The zswap callback flushes memcg stats via
css_rstat_flush(), which may sleep, so it must not run under RCU.

The RCU lock is not needed here.  mem_cgroup_iter() takes RCU internally
and returns a memcg holding a css reference (dropped on the next iteration
or by mem_cgroup_iter_break()), so the memcg stays alive without it.  The
shrinker is kept alive by the open debugfs file: shrinker_free() removes
the debugfs entries via debugfs_remove_recursive(), which waits for
in-flight readers to drain, before call_rcu(..., shrinker_free_rcu_cb). 
The sibling "scan" handler already invokes the sleeping ->scan_objects()
callback with no RCU section.

Drop the rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.0 < 6.1.178
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.145
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.96
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.18.39
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 7.1.4
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.17% 0.069
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
NIST 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de5f69b8dae8698ac5e48dfcd30017887cdf4e5a
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e441cbfbd0eaa6404278e985033c33caba4db767
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fed79f0fe8c8d28a972c290dbfd693c3546c8c4
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/560e21e8ccff813e84d05f6500907c549a3d6985
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86237e56091e70f09c0fbf217f9d9c0e08f556c4
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b902890c62d200b3509cb5e09cf1e0a66553c128
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