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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 27, 2026· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2026-46061

CVE-2026-46061

Description

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

jbd2: fix deadlock in jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke()

Commit f76d4c28a46a ("fs/jbd2: use sleeping version of __find_get_block()") changed jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke() to use __find_get_block_nonatomic() which holds the folio lock instead of i_private_lock. This breaks the lock ordering (folio -> buffer) and causes an ABBA deadlock when the filesystem blocksize < pagesize:

T1 T2 ext4_mkdir() ext4_init_new_dir() ext4_append() ext4_getblk() lock_buffer() <- A sync_blockdev() blkdev_writepages() writeback_iter() writeback_get_folio() folio_lock() <- B ext4_journal_get_create_access() jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke() __find_get_block_nonatomic() folio_lock() <- B block_write_full_folio() lock_buffer() <- A

This can occasionally cause generic/013 to hang.

Fix by only calling __find_get_block_nonatomic() when the passed buffer_head doesn't belong to the bdev, which is the only case that we need to look up its bdev alias. Otherwise, the lookup is redundant since the found buffer_head is equal to the one we passed in.

Affected products

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  • Linux/Kernel7 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 6 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.12.31,<6.12.86
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)

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