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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-64108

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 7/19/2026 12:17:52 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

cifs: Fix busy dentry used after unmounting

Since commit 340cea84f691c ("cifs: open files should not hold ref on
superblock"), cifs file only holds the dentry ref_cnt, the cifs file
close work(cfile->deferred) could be executed after unmounting, which
will trigger a warning in generic_shutdown_super:
 BUG: Dentry 00000000a14a6845{i=c,n=file}  still in use (1) [unmount of
 cifs cifs]

The detailed processs is:
   process A           process B           kworker
 fd = open(PATH)
  vfs_open
   file->__f_path = *path // dentry->d_lockref.count = 1
   cifs_open
    cifs_new_fileinfo
     cfile->dentry = dget(dentry) // dentry->d_lockref.count = 2
 close(fd)
  __fput
  cifs_close
   queue_delayed_work(deferredclose_wq, cfile->deferred)
  dput(dentry) // dentry->d_lockref.count = 1
			                 smb2_deferred_work_close
					  _cifsFileInfo_put
					   list_del(&cifs_file->flist)
                    umount
		     cleanup_mnt
		      deactivate_super
		       cifs_kill_sb
		        cifs_close_all_deferred_files_sb
			 cifs_close_all_deferred_files
			  // cannot find cfile, skip _cifsFileInfo_put
			kill_anon_super
			 generic_shutdown_super
			  shrink_dcache_for_umount
			   umount_check
			    WARN ! // dentry->d_lockref.count = 1
					   cifsFileInfo_put_final
					    dput(cifs_file->dentry)
		                            // dentry->d_lockref.count = 0

Fix it by flushing 'deferredclose_wq' before calling kill_anon_super.

Fetch a reproducer in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221548.
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e7d9d0805e58fa3760894e73115b7a74024fd07
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdc349a87f1fb02c18c4071858a06542bfea783d
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c68337442f03953237a94577beb468ab2662a851
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7364cea52531534676b9f7dbc0a477c11f4c050
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1ffa6cf662383f95816eed1b623429d82675e75
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2deaa2f409a4598eaa10f2a93a676c0632af248
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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