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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23018" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-01-31T11:39:02.330Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:03:42.961Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23018" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23018.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23018" title: "btrfs: release path before initializing extent tree in btrfs_read_locked_inode()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: release path before initializing extent tree in btrfs_read_locked_inode()\n\nIn btrfs_read_locked_inode() we are calling btrfs_init_file_extent_tree()\nwhile holding a path with a read locked leaf from a subvolume tree, and\nbtrfs_init_file_extent_tree() may do a GFP_KERNEL allocation, which can\ntrigger reclaim.\n\nThis can create a circular lock dependency which lockdep warns about with\nthe following splat:\n\n [6.1433] ======================================================\n [6.1574] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected\n [6.1583] 6.18.0+ #4 Tainted: G U\n [6.1591] ------------------------------------------------------\n [6.1599] kswapd0/117 is trying to acquire lock:\n [6.1606] ffff8d9b6333c5b8 (&delayed_node-\u003emutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __btrfs_release_delayed_node.part.0+0x39/0x2f0\n [6.1625]\n but task is already holding lock:\n [6.1633] ffffffffa4ab8ce0 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: balance_pgdat+0x195/0xc60\n [6.1646]\n which lock already depends on the new lock.\n\n [6.1657]\n the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:\n [6.1667]\n -\u003e #2 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}:\n [6.1677] fs_reclaim_acquire+0x9d/0xd0\n [6.1685] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x59/0x750\n [6.1694] btrfs_init_file_extent_tree+0x90/0x100\n [6.1702] btrfs_read_locked_inode+0xc3/0x6b0\n [6.1710] btrfs_iget+0xbb/0xf0\n [6.1716] btrfs_lookup_dentry+0x3c5/0x8e0\n [6.1724] btrfs_lookup+0x12/0x30\n [6.1731] lookup_open.isra.0+0x1aa/0x6a0\n [6.1739] path_openat+0x5f7/0xc60\n [6.1746] do_filp_open+0xd6/0x180\n [6.1753] do_sys_openat2+0x8b/0xe0\n [6.1760] __x64_sys_openat+0x54/0xa0\n [6.1768] do_syscall_64+0x97/0x3e0\n [6.1776] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n [6.1784]\n -\u003e #1 (btrfs-tree-00){++++}-{3:3}:\n [6.1794] lock_release+0x127/0x2a0\n [6.1801] up_read+0x1b/0x30\n [6.1808] btrfs_search_slot+0x8e0/0xff0\n [6.1817] btrfs_lookup_inode+0x52/0xd0\n [6.1825] __btrfs_update_delayed_inode+0x73/0x520\n [6.1833] btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_inode+0x11a/0x120\n [6.1842] btrfs_log_inode+0x608/0x1aa0\n [6.1849] btrfs_log_inode_parent+0x249/0xf80\n [6.1857] btrfs_log_dentry_safe+0x3e/0x60\n [6.1865] btrfs_sync_file+0x431/0x690\n [6.1872] do_fsync+0x39/0x80\n [6.1879] __x64_sys_fsync+0x13/0x20\n [6.1887] do_syscall_64+0x97/0x3e0\n [6.1894] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n [6.1903]\n -\u003e #0 (&delayed_node-\u003emutex){+.+.}-{3:3}:\n [6.1913] __lock_acquire+0x15e9/0x2820\n [6.1920] lock_acquire+0xc9/0x2d0\n [6.1927] __mutex_lock+0xcc/0x10a0\n [6.1934] __btrfs_release_delayed_node.part.0+0x39/0x2f0\n [6.1944] btrfs_evict_inode+0x20b/0x4b0\n [6.1952] evict+0x15a/0x2f0\n [6.1958] prune_icache_sb+0x91/0xd0\n [6.1966] super_cache_scan+0x150/0x1d0\n [6.1974] do_shrink_slab+0x155/0x6f0\n [6.1981] shrink_slab+0x48e/0x890\n [6.1988] shrink_one+0x11a/0x1f0\n [6.1995] shrink_node+0xbfd/0x1320\n [6.1002] balance_pgdat+0x67f/0xc60\n [6.1321] kswapd+0x1dc/0x3e0\n [6.1643] kthread+0xff/0x240\n [6.1965] ret_from_fork+0x223/0x280\n [6.1287] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n [6.1616]\n other info that might help us debug this:\n\n [6.1561] Chain exists of:\n &delayed_node-\u003emutex --\u003e btrfs-tree-00 --\u003e fs_reclaim\n\n [6.1503] Possible unsafe locking scenario:\n\n [6.1110] CPU0 CPU1\n [6.1411] ---- ----\n [6.1707] lock(fs_reclaim);\n [6.1998] lock(btrfs-tree-00);\n [6.1291] lock(fs_reclaim);\n [6.1581] lock(&del\n---truncated---" affected: 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