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CVE-2026-99175

Linux: fsnotify: prevent mark additions during connector teardown

Linux LinuxOperating systems
CVSS
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ExploitationNo known exploitationNot in CISA KEV, which does not prove it is unexploitedCISA KEV
Exploit odds (EPSS)No scoreNo FIRST EPSS score in this snapshot yet
Fixed in952501bfc6e5e654ac4a17ec9d90c1ec614bd9f1Also 472589eacdf10b5f9bd10b333957ed5291b2544b, 36ebddca56b9d8993d6dc984fdecc748ee1f5e06CVE List
Published28 Oct 2026Updated 28 Oct 2026CVE List

What fixes it

  • 952501bfc6e5e654ac4a17ec9d90c1ec614bd9f1LinuxCVE List
  • 472589eacdf10b5f9bd10b333957ed5291b2544bLinuxCVE List
  • 36ebddca56b9d8993d6dc984fdecc748ee1f5e06LinuxCVE List

A fixed version on one release line is not the upgrade target for every line. Check your exact version and any vendor backports.

Description

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

fsnotify: prevent mark additions during connector teardown

fsnotify_destroy_marks() keeps a reference to its current mark while it drops conn->lock to destroy the mark. This stabilizes the forward-walk cursor, but does not prevent a new mark from being inserted before it. For example, an inotify watch re-added after IN_IGNORED sorts before the old, detached mark for the same group. The walk can miss the replacement and then detach the entire connector from the object.

The replacement is still on its group's marks_list and, for inotify, in the watch IDR. The group mutex no longer protects the connector's object from disappearing. An unprivileged fdinfo read racing the final detach can consequently call igrab(NULL):

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in igrab+0x24/0x100 Write of size 4 at addr 0000000000000148 Call Trace: igrab+0x24/0x100 inotify_show_fdinfo+0x1dc/0x5e0 seq_show+0x397/0x690

Set a DESTROYING flag under conn->lock before starting the walk, and reject new marks on that connector with -ENOENT. The existing add-mark error paths undo the temporary group-list entry and the backend's watch allocation. Do not wait for teardown while holding the group mutex, which the destroyer needs. Once the old connector is detached, an add can install a fresh connector as before.

This closes the insertion race for all object types using the common connector teardown, without changing the mark reference or SRCU lifetime rules.

Text from CVE List

Affected versions 8

  • Linuxaffected: 6b3f05d24d355f50f3d9814304650fcab0efb482 before 952501bfc6e5e654ac4a17ec9d90c1ec614bd9f1CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 6b3f05d24d355f50f3d9814304650fcab0efb482 before 472589eacdf10b5f9bd10b333957ed5291b2544bCVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 6b3f05d24d355f50f3d9814304650fcab0efb482 before 36ebddca56b9d8993d6dc984fdecc748ee1f5e06CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 4.12CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: all versions before 4.12CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 6.18.59 through 6.18.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.2.13 through 7.2.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List

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