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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80527" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-26T14:37:06.178Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:26:24.678Z" 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-2026-80527" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80527.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80527" title: "ceph: fix hanging __ceph_get_caps() with stale mds_wanted" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nceph: fix hanging __ceph_get_caps() with stale mds_wanted\n\nA reader can hang forever in __ceph_get_caps() when the client no\nlonger holds `FILE_RD`, but local cap state still says that the\ncapability is already wanted (via `mds_wanted`).\n\nOne way to trigger this is through MDS cap revocation. If another\nclient performs a conflicting operation, the MDS can revoke `FILE_RD`\nfrom the reader; the next read then has to reacquire `FILE_RD`. If\nthe cap update that should request `FILE_RD` never reaches the MDS\nafter `cap-\u003emds_wanted` was raised, the reader is left holding only\nnon-file caps while local `mds_wanted` still includes the file read\ncaps.\n\nIn that state, try_get_cap_refs() sees `need \u003c= mds_wanted` and\nreturns 0, so __ceph_get_caps() just waits on `i_cap_wq`. If the cap\nupdate that was supposed to request `FILE_RD never reaches the MDS\nafter `cap-\u003emds_wanted was` raised, no further request is sent and the\nwaiter can sleep indefinitely until unrelated cap traffic happens to\nwake it up.\n\nThe ordering issue is that `cap-\u003emds_wanted` is updated in\n__prep_cap() before the `CEPH_MSG_CLIENT_CAPS message` is actually\nqueued for send. That makes one field serve two different meanings at\nonce: what this client wants, and what the client believes the MDS\nalready knows it wants.\n\nA proper fix would be to split those states and track whether a cap\nupdate is actually in flight or has been observed by the MDS.\nHowever, simply moving the `cap-\u003emds_wanted assignment` later would\nnot be sufficient: queueing the message in the messenger does not\nguarantee that the MDS processed that specific wanted set, and\nreconnect or message loss can still invalidate that assumption.\nFixing that properly would require a larger rework of the cap state\nmachine.\n\nTo allow simpler backports to stable kernels, this patch implements a\nsimpler workaround:\n\n- stop waiting forever in __ceph_get_caps(); after a bounded wait,\n fall back to the renew path\n\n- make ceph_renew_caps() issue a synchronous `OPEN` request whenever\n the inode still does not actually hold the wanted caps, instead of\n only calling ceph_check_caps()\n\nThe extra issued-vs-wanted check in ceph_renew_caps() is necessary\nbecause the previous test only checked whether the inode still had any\nreal caps at all. That is not enough after revocation: the client can\nstill hold something like `pLs` and yet be missing `FILE_RD`\ncompletely. In that case, falling back to ceph_check_caps() is not\nsufficient, because it still trusts `cap-\u003emds_wanted` and may resend\nnothing. By requiring `(issued & wanted) == wanted` before taking the\nasynchronous path, the code only uses ceph_check_caps() when the\n`wanted caps` are already actually issued. Otherwise, it sends the\nsynchronous `OPEN` renew.\n\nThis preserves the existing asynchronous fast path when the wanted\ncaps are already issued, avoids changing cap-state semantics, and\nfixes the hang by guaranteeing that a stalled waiter eventually\nretries through a path that does not rely on the stale `mds_wanted`\nstate.\n\n[ idryomov: move CEPH_GET_CAPS_WAIT_TIMEOUT from libceph.h to\n mds_client.h, formatting ]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b5661524c5a45085a866864ca9b8ae2513dfd67a"},{"version":"0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e84bc6f67e19fdd192d8b215de728acbfc12572"},{"version":"0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5fedf279a1ea369d39c8b06dd4547cdc576065d0"},{"version":"0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e05c315b4da0c16ea800ee4b2cb6c617f586d1b5"},{"version":"0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fcce1b3be6d286aa80831e730289f4c062053ae6"},{"version":"0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3bc6b3e9ef3f5f5cb85a902a30a090c7931127c"},{"version":"0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e55fe24c548ad3163903eb58bb002d28d32a630"},{"version":"0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"50958bb928bad3bdba9e5d1b7ff4bbadcf6951e6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.266","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.217","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.10","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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