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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23036" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-01-31T11:42:30.782Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:58:45.739Z" 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-2026-23036" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23036.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23036" title: "btrfs: release path before iget_failed() in btrfs_read_locked_inode()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: release path before iget_failed() in btrfs_read_locked_inode()\n\nIn btrfs_read_locked_inode() if we fail to lookup the inode, we jump to\nthe 'out' label with a path that has a read locked leaf and then we call\niget_failed(). This can result in a ABBA deadlock, since iget_failed()\ntriggers inode eviction and that causes the release of the delayed inode,\nwhich must lock the delayed inode's mutex, and a task updating a delayed\ninode starts by taking the node's mutex and then modifying the inode's\nsubvolume btree.\n\nSyzbot reported the following lockdep splat for this:\n\n ======================================================\n WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected\n syzkaller #0 Not tainted\n ------------------------------------------------------\n btrfs-cleaner/8725 is trying to acquire lock:\n ffff0000d6826a48 (&delayed_node-\u003emutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: __btrfs_release_delayed_node+0xa0/0x9b0 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:290\n\n but task is already holding lock:\n ffff0000dbeba878 (btrfs-tree-00){++++}-{4:4}, at: btrfs_tree_read_lock_nested+0x44/0x2ec fs/btrfs/locking.c:145\n\n which lock already depends on the new lock.\n\n the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:\n\n -\u003e #1 (btrfs-tree-00){++++}-{4:4}:\n __lock_release kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5574 [inline]\n lock_release+0x198/0x39c kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5889\n up_read+0x24/0x3c kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1632\n btrfs_tree_read_unlock+0xdc/0x298 fs/btrfs/locking.c:169\n btrfs_tree_unlock_rw fs/btrfs/locking.h:218 [inline]\n btrfs_search_slot+0xa6c/0x223c fs/btrfs/ctree.c:2133\n btrfs_lookup_inode+0xd8/0x38c fs/btrfs/inode-item.c:395\n __btrfs_update_delayed_inode+0x124/0xed0 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1032\n btrfs_update_delayed_inode fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1118 [inline]\n __btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_items+0x15f8/0x1748 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1141\n __btrfs_run_delayed_items+0x1ac/0x514 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1176\n btrfs_run_delayed_items_nr+0x28/0x38 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1219\n flush_space+0x26c/0xb68 fs/btrfs/space-info.c:828\n do_async_reclaim_metadata_space+0x110/0x364 fs/btrfs/space-info.c:1158\n btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space+0x90/0xd8 fs/btrfs/space-info.c:1226\n process_one_work+0x7e8/0x155c kernel/workqueue.c:3263\n process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3346 [inline]\n worker_thread+0x958/0xed8 kernel/workqueue.c:3427\n kthread+0x5fc/0x75c kernel/kthread.c:463\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:844\n\n -\u003e #0 (&delayed_node-\u003emutex){+.+.}-{4:4}:\n check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3165 [inline]\n check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3284 [inline]\n validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3908 [inline]\n __lock_acquire+0x1774/0x30a4 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5237\n lock_acquire+0x14c/0x2e0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868\n __mutex_lock_common+0x1d0/0x2678 kernel/locking/mutex.c:598\n __mutex_lock kernel/locking/mutex.c:760 [inline]\n mutex_lock_nested+0x2c/0x38 kernel/locking/mutex.c:812\n __btrfs_release_delayed_node+0xa0/0x9b0 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:290\n btrfs_release_delayed_node fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:315 [inline]\n btrfs_remove_delayed_node+0x68/0x84 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1326\n btrfs_evict_inode+0x578/0xe28 fs/btrfs/inode.c:5587\n evict+0x414/0x928 fs/inode.c:810\n iput_final fs/inode.c:1914 [inline]\n iput+0x95c/0xad4 fs/inode.c:1966\n iget_failed+0xec/0x134 fs/bad_inode.c:248\n btrfs_read_locked_inode+0xe1c/0x1234 fs/btrfs/inode.c:4101\n btrfs_iget+0x1b0/0x264 fs/btrfs/inode.c:5837\n btrfs_run_defrag_inode fs/btrfs/defrag.c:237 [inline]\n btrfs_run_defrag_inodes+0x520/0xdc4 fs/btrf\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"69673992b1aea5540199d9b8b658ede72f55a6cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"65241e3ddda60b53a4ee3ae12721fc9ee21d5827"},{"version":"69673992b1aea5540199d9b8b658ede72f55a6cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e1f2055ad5a7a5d548789b334a4473a7665c418"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.18.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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