Bug 2440661 (CVE-2026-23224)

Summary: CVE-2026-23224 kernel: Linux kernel erofs: Denial of Service via Use-After-Free in file-backed directio mounts
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's erofs filesystem. A local user could exploit a Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability, which occurs due to a race condition when performing file-backed mounts with the 'directio' option. This flaw can lead to a kernel panic, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the system.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-02-18 16:03:01 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

erofs: fix UAF issue for file-backed mounts w/ directio option

[    9.269940][ T3222] Call trace:
[    9.269948][ T3222]  ext4_file_read_iter+0xac/0x108
[    9.269979][ T3222]  vfs_iocb_iter_read+0xac/0x198
[    9.269993][ T3222]  erofs_fileio_rq_submit+0x12c/0x180
[    9.270008][ T3222]  erofs_fileio_submit_bio+0x14/0x24
[    9.270030][ T3222]  z_erofs_runqueue+0x834/0x8ac
[    9.270054][ T3222]  z_erofs_read_folio+0x120/0x220
[    9.270083][ T3222]  filemap_read_folio+0x60/0x120
[    9.270102][ T3222]  filemap_fault+0xcac/0x1060
[    9.270119][ T3222]  do_pte_missing+0x2d8/0x1554
[    9.270131][ T3222]  handle_mm_fault+0x5ec/0x70c
[    9.270142][ T3222]  do_page_fault+0x178/0x88c
[    9.270167][ T3222]  do_translation_fault+0x38/0x54
[    9.270183][ T3222]  do_mem_abort+0x54/0xac
[    9.270208][ T3222]  el0_da+0x44/0x7c
[    9.270227][ T3222]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x5c/0xf4
[    9.270253][ T3222]  el0t_64_sync+0x1bc/0x1c0

EROFS may encounter above panic when enabling file-backed mount w/
directio mount option, the root cause is it may suffer UAF in below
race condition:

- z_erofs_read_folio                          wq s_dio_done_wq
 - z_erofs_runqueue
  - erofs_fileio_submit_bio
   - erofs_fileio_rq_submit
    - vfs_iocb_iter_read
     - ext4_file_read_iter
      - ext4_dio_read_iter
       - iomap_dio_rw
       : bio was submitted and return -EIOCBQUEUED
                                              - dio_aio_complete_work
                                               - dio_complete
                                                - dio->iocb->ki_complete (erofs_fileio_ki_complete())
                                                 - kfree(rq)
                                                 : it frees iocb, iocb.ki_filp can be UAF in file_accessed().
       - file_accessed
       : access NULL file point

Introduce a reference count in struct erofs_fileio_rq, and initialize it
as two, both erofs_fileio_ki_complete() and erofs_fileio_rq_submit() will
decrease reference count, the last one decreasing the reference count
to zero will free rq.