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CVE-2026-23109

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CVSS
5.5 Medium
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.11%
Risk score
0.8
Published
2026-02-04
Status
Published

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/writeback: skip AS_NO_DATA_INTEGRITY mappings in wait_sb_inodes() Above the while() loop in wait_sb_inodes(), we document that we must wait for all pages under writeback for data integrity. Consequently, if a mapping, like fuse, traditionally does not have data integrity semantics, there is no need to wait at all; we can simply skip these inodes. This restores fuse back to prior behavior where syncs are no-ops. This fixes a user regression where if a system is running a faulty fuse server that does not reply to issued write requests, this causes wait_sb_inodes() to wait forever. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's writeback subsystem. The wait_sb_inodes() function waits for all pages under writeback, including those from FUSE filesystems that traditionally do not have data integrity semantics. If a faulty FUSE server fails to reply to write requests, sync operations can hang indefinitely, causing a denial of service.

Weaknesses

CWE-835

Coverage 3

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