CVE-2026-97521

Summary

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

gfs2: fix quota init duplicate scan

gfs2_quota_init() checks for duplicate quota_change IDs while holding qd_lock and the quota hash bucket bitlock. That path used gfs2_qd_search_bucket(), which takes a lockref reference via lockref_get_not_dead().

On PREEMPT_RT this may sleep, which is not allowed under the bucket bitlock, triggering "sleeping function called from invalid context".

Use a no-ref bucket lookup in this path, then continue duplicate handling without taking a lockref there.

Refactor gfs2_qd_search_bucket() to build on top of the no-ref helper so lookup traversal stays in one place.

This patch fixes a bug reported by syzbot.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 7fdcf16e5e14e11028f5bcaa6d25075eb5e876a0affected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 812a766e2b0a8f4d094393fad13475c57f5f86dbaffected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < b99a1f0f18ee50445907f55069e88bcfd8947383affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.12.111affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.18.53affected
LinuxLinux6.12.111 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.53 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

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