CVE-2026-64419
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-64419, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-07-25
Last updated on: 2026-07-25
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show()
Reading the debugfs "count" file of a memcg-aware shrinker can sleep
inside an RCU read-side critical section:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:421
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
css_rstat_flush
mem_cgroup_flush_stats
zswap_shrinker_count
shrinker_debugfs_count_show
shrinker_debugfs_count_show() invokes the ->count_objects() callback under
rcu_read_lock(). The zswap callback flushes memcg stats via
css_rstat_flush(), which may sleep, so it must not run under RCU.
The RCU lock is not needed here. mem_cgroup_iter() takes RCU internally
and returns a memcg holding a css reference (dropped on the next iteration
or by mem_cgroup_iter_break()), so the memcg stays alive without it. The
shrinker is kept alive by the open debugfs file: shrinker_free() removes
the debugfs entries via debugfs_remove_recursive(), which waits for
in-flight readers to drain, before call_rcu(..., shrinker_free_rcu_cb).
The sibling "scan" handler already invokes the sleeping ->scan_objects()
callback with no RCU section.
Drop the rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-UNKNOWN |
