Bug 2502616 (CVE-2026-64156) - CVE-2026-64156 kernel: netfs, afs: Fix write skipping in dir/link writepages
Summary: CVE-2026-64156 kernel: netfs, afs: Fix write skipping in dir/link writepages
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-64156
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-07-19 17:09 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-20 06:52 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-19 17:09:05 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfs, afs: Fix write skipping in dir/link writepages

Fix netfs_write_single() and afs_single_writepages() to better handle a
write that would be skipped due to lock contention and WB_SYNC_NONE by
returning 1 from netfs_write_single() if it skipped and making
afs_single_writepages() skip also.  If a skip occurs, the inode must be
re-marked as the VFS may have cleared the mark.

This is really only theoretical for directories in netfs_write_single() as
the only path to that is through afs_single_writepages() that takes the
->validate_lock around it, thereby serialising it.


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