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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89646"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:37.767Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:50:17.976Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89646"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89646.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89646"
title: "ceph: fix leaked inode reference on writeback abort at umount"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nceph: fix leaked inode reference on writeback abort at umount\n\nceph_dirty_folio() takes a wrbuffer claim on each newly dirtied folio: it\nbumps i_wrbuffer_ref (taking an ihold() on the 0-\u003e1 transition) and\nattaches the snap_context to folio-\u003eprivate.  That claim is released only\nby ceph_put_wrbuffer_cap_refs(), which for a submitted write runs from\nwritepages_finish().\n\nIn ceph_submit_write(), if ceph_inc_osd_stopping_blocker() fails -- which\nhappens during umount -- the request is aborted before submission: the\nalready-collected folios are only redirtied and unlocked, so\nwritepages_finish() never runs and the claim is leaked.\nredirty_page_for_writepage() -\u003e folio_redirty_for_writepage() -\u003e\nfilemap_dirty_folio() sets PG_dirty directly and does not go through\n-\u003edirty_folio, so ceph_dirty_folio() is not re-entered to rebalance it.\nBecause every subsequent writeback also fails the osd_stopping_blocker,\ni_wrbuffer_ref never returns to 0, the ihold() is never dropped, and the\ninode cannot be evicted:\n\n  VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of ceph\n  kernel BUG at fs/super.c:650!\n\nRelease the orphaned claim in the abort path before redirtying, via\nceph_undo_wrbuffer_claim(): detach the snap_context, drop the wrbuffer\nreference (letting i_wrbuffer_ref reach 0 and iput() the inode), and drop\nthe snap_context reference -- i.e. do what writepages_finish() would have\ndone for these never-submitted folios.\n\nOnly the locked_pages entries are undone; folios still in the fbatch were\nnever dirty-cleared by this call (folio_clear_dirty_for_io() is the\nownership-transfer point, and a successful move NULLs the fbatch slot), so\nthey hold no claim this call owns."
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