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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-74318

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:22:32 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

btrfs: fix deadlock cloning inline extent when using flushoncommit

In commit b48c980b6a7e ("btrfs: fix deadlock between reflink and
transaction commit when using flushoncommit") a deadlock was fixed
between reflinks and transaction commits when the fs is mounted with the
flushoncommit option. This happened when we had to copy an inline extent's
data to the destination file. However the issue was fixed only for the
case where the destination offset is 0, it missed the case when the offset
is greater than zero.

Fix this by ensuring we get i_size update whenever we copied an inline
extent's data into the destination file.

Syzbot reported this with the following trace:

   INFO: task kworker/u8:3:57 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
         Not tainted syzkaller #0
   "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
   task:kworker/u8:3    state:D stack:21600 pid:57    tgid:57    ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208160 flags:0x00080000
   Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-btrfs-129)
   Call Trace:
    <TASK>
    context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5402 [inline]
    __schedule+0x16f9/0x5500 kernel/sched/core.c:7204
    __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7283 [inline]
    schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7298
    wait_extent_bit fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:905 [inline]
    btrfs_lock_extent_bits+0x59c/0x700 fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:2008
    btrfs_lock_extent fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.h:152 [inline]
    btrfs_invalidate_folio+0x440/0xc00 fs/btrfs/inode.c:7718
    extent_writepage fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:1848 [inline]
    extent_write_cache_pages fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:2552 [inline]
    btrfs_writepages+0x12f3/0x2410 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:2684
    do_writepages+0x32e/0x550 mm/page-writeback.c:2571
    __writeback_single_inode+0x133/0x10e0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1764
    writeback_sb_inodes+0x97f/0x1980 fs/fs-writeback.c:2056
    wb_writeback+0x445/0xb00 fs/fs-writeback.c:2241
    wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2388 [inline]
    wb_workfn+0x3fd/0xf20 fs/fs-writeback.c:2428
    process_one_work+0x98b/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3318
    process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3401 [inline]
    worker_thread+0xb49/0x1140 kernel/workqueue.c:3482
    kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
    ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
    ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
    </TASK>
   INFO: task syz.0.145:8523 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
         Not tainted syzkaller #0
   "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
   task:syz.0.145       state:D stack:22752 pid:8523  tgid:8522  ppid:5850   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080002
   Call Trace:
    <TASK>
    context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5402 [inline]
    __schedule+0x16f9/0x5500 kernel/sched/core.c:7204
    __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7283 [inline]
    schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7298
    wb_wait_for_completion+0x3e8/0x790 fs/fs-writeback.c:227
    __writeback_inodes_sb_nr+0x24c/0x2d0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2847
    try_to_writeback_inodes_sb+0x9a/0xc0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2895
    btrfs_start_delalloc_flush fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2182 [inline]
    btrfs_commit_transaction+0x813/0x2fc0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2371
    btrfs_sync_file+0xdf4/0x1230 fs/btrfs/file.c:1822
    generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:2663 [inline]
    btrfs_do_write_iter+0x6a9/0x840 fs/btrfs/file.c:1473
    new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
    vfs_write+0x629/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:688
    ksys_write+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:740
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0x15f/0x560 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
   RIP: 0033:0x7f5a0bdece59
   RSP: 002b:00007f5a0b446028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
   RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f5a0c065fa0 RCX: 00007f5a0bdece59
   RDX: 000000000000029f RSI: 0000200000
---truncated---
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06283034cec0fa357cbd85784ef7d3f5b2ce0790
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2aa37c8ef1092c6f088e23a90bffefc672831c09
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/532085d00eb54c074bdeae648b194765239f4d11
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea3452726ccb6bcaa732f43cc57bb928eca3dd59
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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