In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: silence the warning when evicting inode with dioread_nolock
When evicting an inode with default dioread_nolock, it could be raced by
the unwritten extents converting kworker after writeback some new
allocated dirty blocks. It convert unwritten extents to written, the
extents could be merged to upper level and free extent blocks, so it
could mark the inode dirty again even this inode has been marked
I_FREEING. But the inode->i_io_list check and warning in
ext4_evict_inode() missing this corner case. Fortunately,
ext4_evict_inode() will wait all extents converting finished before this
check, so it will not lead to inode use-after-free problem, every thing
is OK besides this warning. The WARN_ON_ONCE was originally designed
for finding inode use-after-free issues in advance, but if we add
current dioread_nolock case in, it will become not quite useful, so fix
this warning by just remove this check.
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WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1092 at fs/ext4/inode.c:227
ext4_evict_inode+0x875/0xc60
...
RIP: 0010:ext4_evict_inode+0x875/0xc60
...
Call Trace:
evict+0x11c/0x2b0
iput+0x236/0x3a0
do_unlinkat+0x1b4/0x490
__x64_sys_unlinkat+0x4c/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
RIP: 0033:0x7fa933c1115b
======
rm kworker
ext4_end_io_end()
vfs_unlink()
ext4_unlink()
ext4_convert_unwritten_io_end_vec()
ext4_convert_unwritten_extents()
ext4_map_blocks()
ext4_ext_map_blocks()
ext4_ext_try_to_merge_up()
__mark_inode_dirty()
check !I_FREEING
locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list()
iput()
iput_final()
evict()
ext4_evict_inode()
truncate_inode_pages_final() //wait release io_end
inode_io_list_move_locked()
ext4_release_io_end()
trigger WARN_ON_ONCE()
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
- EG Severity
- Not assessed: no CVSS publishedA missing CVSS is not a severity of zero.
- EG Likelihood
- 0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-26). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- No SSVC decision: EchelonGraph has not assessed this CVECISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the BOD 26-04 block below.
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it