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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74572" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:28:11.328Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:56.826Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-74572" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74572.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74572" title: "btrfs: zoned: fix deadlock between metadata writeback and transaction commit" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: zoned: fix deadlock between metadata writeback and transaction commit\n\nWhen writing out metadata extent buffers in a zoned filesystem,\nbtree_writepages() holds fs_info-\u003ezoned_meta_io_lock across the whole\nwriteback loop, including the call to btrfs_check_meta_write_pointer() -\u003e\ncheck_bg_is_active().\n\nFor the tree-log block group, check_bg_is_active() may fail to activate\nthe zone and fall back to btrfs_zone_finish_one_bg() to free an active\nzone. That path waits for the running transaction to commit while still\nholding zoned_meta_io_lock, but the committer needs that same lock to\nwrite out the tree extents, so the two tasks deadlock:\n\n Task A (kworker, metadata writeback) Task B (fsstress, transaction commit)\n ------------------------------------ -------------------------------------\n wb_workfn() btrfs_commit_transaction(T)\n btree_writepages() btrfs_write_and_wait_transaction()\n btrfs_zoned_meta_io_lock() btrfs_write_marked_extents()\n btrfs_check_meta_write_pointer() btree_writepages()\n check_bg_is_active() [treelog_bg] btrfs_zoned_meta_io_lock()\n btrfs_zone_finish_one_bg() \u003cblocks on zoned_meta_io_lock,\n btrfs_zone_finish() held by Task A\u003e\n do_zone_finish()\n btrfs_inc_block_group_ro()\n btrfs_wait_for_commit()\n \u003cblocks waiting for commit\n of transaction T, done by\n Task B\u003e\n\nThe sibling branch in check_bg_is_active() already drops zoned_meta_io_lock\naround do_zone_finish() for this exact reason. Do the same in the tree-log\nbranch: release the lock around btrfs_zone_finish_one_bg() and re-acquire\nit afterwards. The lock only protects fs_info-\u003eactive_{meta,system}_bg,\nwhich this branch does not touch, and ctx-\u003ezoned_bg keeps a reference to\nthe block group across the unlock, so nothing is lost while the lock\nis dropped.\n\nThis hang occasionally reproduces with fstests generic/475 on a zoned\nbtrfs filesystem." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"13bb483d32abb6f8ebd40141d87eb68f11cc2dd2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18577e77c2c8adaadf1f7c6e9bcd1c0b14e5dcdd"},{"version":"13bb483d32abb6f8ebd40141d87eb68f11cc2dd2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3320873e0c04ce7b746fc8fe948f07bbbbdec33"},{"version":"13bb483d32abb6f8ebd40141d87eb68f11cc2dd2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"deddd28fd83c264ee2ff5cd6b34449a9f1be6112"},{"version":"13bb483d32abb6f8ebd40141d87eb68f11cc2dd2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75859a7cd77cd2ddaddbcb963e3fcd34738953af"},{"version":"13bb483d32abb6f8ebd40141d87eb68f11cc2dd2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ebe51c29fa9755d5b2fea28727c051117907cf8"},{"version":"fca3a1cd3ba47f1815e0c0fcdc9aafaf02ee0a75","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.5.5","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":"6.6.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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