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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-68460

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:18:22 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix potential deadlock in f2fs_balance_fs()

When the f2fs filesystem space is nearly exhausted, we encounter deadlock
issues as below:

INFO: task A:1890 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
      Tainted: G           O       6.12.41-g3fe07ddf05ab #1
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:A    state:D stack:0     pid:1890  tgid:1626  ppid:1153   flags:0x00000204
Call trace:
 __switch_to+0xf4/0x158
 __schedule+0x27c/0x908
 schedule+0x3c/0x118
 io_schedule+0x44/0x68
 folio_wait_bit_common+0x174/0x370
 folio_wait_bit+0x20/0x38
 folio_wait_writeback+0x54/0xc8
 truncate_inode_partial_folio+0x70/0x1e0
 truncate_inode_pages_range+0x1b0/0x450
 truncate_pagecache+0x54/0x88
 f2fs_file_write_iter+0x3e8/0xb80
 do_iter_readv_writev+0xf0/0x1e0
 vfs_writev+0x138/0x2c8
 do_writev+0x88/0x130
 __arm64_sys_writev+0x28/0x40
 invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
 do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
 el0_svc+0x30/0xf8
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x130
 el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198

INFO: task kworker/u8:11:2680853 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
      Tainted: G           O       6.12.41-g3fe07ddf05ab #1
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/u8:11   state:D stack:0     pid:2680853 tgid:2680853 ppid:2      flags:0x00000208
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-254:0)
Call trace:
 __switch_to+0xf4/0x158
 __schedule+0x27c/0x908
 schedule+0x3c/0x118
 io_schedule+0x44/0x68
 folio_wait_bit_common+0x174/0x370
 __filemap_get_folio+0x214/0x348
 pagecache_get_page+0x20/0x70
 f2fs_get_read_data_page+0x150/0x3e8
 f2fs_get_lock_data_page+0x2c/0x160
 move_data_page+0x50/0x478
 do_garbage_collect+0xd38/0x1528
 f2fs_gc+0x240/0x7e0
 f2fs_balance_fs+0x1a0/0x208
 f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x6e4/0x730
 f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x378/0x9b0
 f2fs_write_data_pages+0x2e4/0x388
 do_writepages+0x8c/0x2c8
 __writeback_single_inode+0x4c/0x498
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x234/0x4a8
 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x58/0x118
 wb_writeback+0x2f8/0x3c0
 wb_workfn+0x2c4/0x508
 process_one_work+0x180/0x408
 worker_thread+0x258/0x368
 kthread+0x118/0x128
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x200

INFO: task kworker/u8:8:2641297 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
      Tainted: G           O       6.12.41-g3fe07ddf05ab #1
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/u8:8    state:D stack:0     pid:2641297 tgid:2641297 ppid:2      flags:0x00000208
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-254:0)
Call trace:
 __switch_to+0xf4/0x158
 __schedule+0x27c/0x908
 rt_mutex_schedule+0x30/0x60
 __rt_mutex_slowlock_locked.constprop.0+0x460/0x8a8
 rwbase_write_lock+0x24c/0x378
 down_write+0x1c/0x30
 f2fs_balance_fs+0x184/0x208
 f2fs_write_inode+0xf4/0x328
 __writeback_single_inode+0x370/0x498
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x234/0x4a8
 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x58/0x118
 wb_writeback+0x2f8/0x3c0
 wb_workfn+0x2c4/0x508
 process_one_work+0x180/0x408
 worker_thread+0x258/0x368
 kthread+0x118/0x128
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

INFO: task B:1902 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
      Tainted: G           O       6.12.41-g3fe07ddf05ab #1
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:B     state:D stack:0     pid:1902  tgid:1626  ppid:1153   flags:0x0000020c
Call trace:
 __switch_to+0xf4/0x158
 __schedule+0x27c/0x908
 rt_mutex_schedule+0x30/0x60
 __rt_mutex_slowlock_locked.constprop.0+0x460/0x8a8
 rwbase_write_lock+0x24c/0x378
 down_write+0x1c/0x30
 f2fs_balance_fs+0x184/0x208
 f2fs_map_blocks+0x94c/0x1110
 f2fs_file_write_iter+0x228/0xb80
 do_iter_readv_writev+0xf0/0x1e0
 vfs_writev+0x138/0x2c8
 do_writev+0x88/0x130
 __arm64_sys_writev+0x28/0x40
 invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
 do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
 el0_svc+0x30/0xf8
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x130
 el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198

INFO: task sync:2769849 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
      Tainted: G     
---truncated---

                  
                
              		
            

            

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/162d57d8eb8440ad2d90469bf2c116abb04a9d33

                  
                
              		
            

            

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/345c1d1ff751104ebdc32c145be80de566c5150f

                  
                
              		
            

            

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44480f7e3f8369671452c0d262831c51aa5a9c20

                  
                
              		
            

            

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/998536c96b6ad9d99cd85dea11452ab83dc7c88d

                  
                
              		
            

            

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf8b5937b7b258927ccca267995e13e76a07b38e

                  
                
              		
            

            

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd3114870771562036fdcf5abe813956f36d224d

                  
                
              		
            

            

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e273116fbb6dfd7f027c0623e7c5109241be1919

                  
                
              		
            

            

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f51db99287b5acf81513ece82a0c95eb5db008e3

                  
                
              		
            

            

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