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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53050" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:56.043Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:22:19.854Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" 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-2026-53050" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53050.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53050" title: "quota: Fix race of dquot_scan_active() with quota deactivation" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nquota: Fix race of dquot_scan_active() with quota deactivation\n\ndquot_scan_active() can race with quota deactivation in\nquota_release_workfn() like:\n\n CPU0 (quota_release_workfn) CPU1 (dquot_scan_active)\n ============================== ==============================\n spin_lock(&dq_list_lock);\n list_replace_init(\n &releasing_dquots, &rls_head);\n /* dquot X on rls_head,\n dq_count == 0,\n DQ_ACTIVE_B still set */\n spin_unlock(&dq_list_lock);\n synchronize_srcu(&dquot_srcu);\n spin_lock(&dq_list_lock);\n list_for_each_entry(dquot,\n &inuse_list, dq_inuse) {\n /* finds dquot X */\n dquot_active(X) -\u003e true\n atomic_inc(&X-\u003edq_count);\n }\n spin_unlock(&dq_list_lock);\n spin_lock(&dq_list_lock);\n dquot = list_first_entry(&rls_head);\n WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_read(&dquot-\u003edq_count));\n\nThe problem is not only a cosmetic one as under memory pressure the\ncaller of dquot_scan_active() can end up working on freed dquot.\n\nFix the problem by making sure the dquot is removed from releasing list\nwhen we acquire a reference to it." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"22c06bf1f99ec3ec16b1a81342becba4c59a1f16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2bdc80f4619411e5bd4a3ef23f51e14021ed457c"},{"version":"56e96b38d2f7cd95b3c30eb70decac7233915e0a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9438cb8c8ec3adc84b2b450a3aab0123d074c3b"},{"version":"12a820a9923c11e8e898da9f82c8aded70cdcd16","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac8a2e0d287ebf35e5d7e51e260b4e146648ba4a"},{"version":"869b6ea1609f655a43251bf41757aa44e5350a8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6678dde265708003c2b42551af4a2e3cb05decd5"},{"version":"869b6ea1609f655a43251bf41757aa44e5350a8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"61e25f664dc2a08299e07d84c85776abc2350f75"},{"version":"869b6ea1609f655a43251bf41757aa44e5350a8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fdd424d7c35633ac577fd87d1b043d1b8a6cd350"},{"version":"869b6ea1609f655a43251bf41757aa44e5350a8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82cbdb4c1ebb5ea7d7bd45c18d3483b5bd32ebc1"},{"version":"869b6ea1609f655a43251bf41757aa44e5350a8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e93ab401da4b2e2c1b8ef2424de2f238d51c8b2d"},{"version":"bb7e3a019b52d829949d02b64ebab37838148fbf","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"061a18239ced5eb086967a2b4451cb1cc5ce0702","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"2a1ddddba6541143c8f73962f3021f1789114284","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.199","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.258"},{"version":"5.15.136","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.209"},{"version":"6.1.59","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.175"},{"version":"4.19.297","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.259","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"6.5.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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