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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72203"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:00.321Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:44:28.499Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-72203"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72203.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72203"
title: "ntfs: skip extent mft records in writeback to prevent deadlock"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs: skip extent mft records in writeback to prevent deadlock\n\nThis patch fixes the ABBA deadlock between extent_lock and extent\nmrec_lock triggered by xfstests generic/113, that occurs since the commit\n6994acf33bae (\"ntfs: use base mft_no when looking up base inode for\n\t\textent record\").\n\nPath A (inode writeback):\n  VFS writeback\n    -\u003e ntfs_write_inode()\n      -\u003e __ntfs_write_inode()\n        -\u003e mutex_lock(&ni-\u003eextent_lock)\n        -\u003e mutex_lock(&tni-\u003emrec_lock)\n\nPath B (MFT folio writeback):\n  VFS writeback of $MFT dirty folios\n    -\u003e ntfs_mft_writepages()\n      -\u003e ntfs_write_mft_block()\n        -\u003e ntfs_may_write_mft_record()\n          -\u003e holds one extent mrec_lock from a previous iteration\n          -\u003e tries to acquire another base inode extent_lock\n\nBy removing all extent_lock and extent mrec_lock acquisition from the MFT\nfolio writeback path, the ABBA lock ordering is eliminated:\n\nPath A: __ntfs_write_inode(): extent_lock -\u003e mrec_lock\nPath B (removed): ntfs_write_mft_block(): mrec_lock -\u003e extent_lock\n\nPath B is always redundant for extent records because:\n\n1. mark_mft_record_dirty(ext_ni) does NOT dirty the MFT folio.\n   It only sets NInoDirty(ext_ni) and marks the base VFS inode dirty\n   via __mark_inode_dirty(I_DIRTY_DATASYNC), which triggers Path A.\n   Therefore, normal extent modifications never create a situation where\n   the MFT folio is dirty and Path B is not scheduled.\n\n2. The MFT folio only gets dirtied via ntfs_mft_mark_dirty() inside\n   ntfs_mft_record_alloc(). But all identified callers in attrib.c\n   (ntfs_attr_add, ntfs_attr_record_move_away,\n   ntfs_attr_make_non_resident, ntfs_attr_record_resize) follow through\n   with mark_mft_record_dirty(), which triggers Path A to write the\n   complete record.\n\n3. ntfs_evict_big_inode() calls ntfs_commit_inode() before freeing extent\n   inodes, ensuring all dirty extents are flushed via Path A before the\n   base inode leaves the icache."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6626fb859f4c4772f2f59751d23937716e03f98f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ffa8f3d30236e0ab897c30bdb01224ff1fe1c89"},{"version":"1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f831ab09d521898bf1dd99bf5adfd630ea1428e3"},{"version":"1e9ea7e04472d4e5e12e58c881eaacfb3e49b669","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"76bc14c7097ff678b2b5dbfd4fa33b46897d87ce"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.1"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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