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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90265" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:08:01.372Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:50:45.545Z" 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-2026-90265" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90265.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90265" title: "btrfs: defrag: fix deadlock between defrag and delalloc space reservation" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: defrag: fix deadlock between defrag and delalloc space reservation\n\nWhile running fsstress with autodefrag and flushoncommit, hit a deadlock\ndue to the fact that defrag reserves delalloc space while it's holding\ndirty and locked folios, besides the extent range lock. The stack traces\nare the following:\n\n [958.624] task:kworker/u50:3 state:D stack:0 pid:20365 tgid:20365 ppid:2 task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000\n [958.626] Workqueue: events_unbound btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space [btrfs]\n [958.627] Call Trace:\n [958.628] \u003cTASK\u003e\n [958.628] __schedule+0x4be/0x10f0\n [958.629] ? preempt_count_add+0x69/0xa0\n [958.630] schedule+0x26/0xd0\n [958.631] wait_current_trans+0x102/0x160 [btrfs]\n [958.632] ? __pfx_autoremove_wake_function+0x10/0x10\n [958.633] start_transaction+0x374/0x900 [btrfs]\n [958.634] btrfs_commit_current_transaction+0x1d/0x70 [btrfs]\n [958.635] flush_space+0xca/0x5e0 [btrfs]\n [958.636] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30\n [958.637] ? btrfs_reduce_alloc_profile+0x8c/0x190 [btrfs]\n [958.639] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30\n [958.640] ? calc_available_free_space.isra.0+0x6f/0x110 [btrfs]\n [958.641] do_async_reclaim_metadata_space+0x84/0x190 [btrfs]\n [958.642] btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space+0x64/0x80 [btrfs]\n [958.644] process_one_work+0x19d/0x3a0\n [958.644] worker_thread+0x1c4/0x330\n [958.645] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n [958.646] kthread+0xfc/0x130\n [958.647] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n [958.648] ret_from_fork+0x1f7/0x2c0\n [958.648] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n [958.649] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n [958.650] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n [958.651] task:kworker/u49:7 state:D stack:0 pid:52990 tgid:52990 ppid:2 task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00080000\n [958.653] Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-btrfs-334)\n [958.655] Call Trace:\n [958.655] \u003cTASK\u003e\n [958.656] __schedule+0x4be/0x10f0\n [958.657] ? __blk_flush_plug+0xe9/0x140\n [958.658] schedule+0x26/0xd0\n [958.658] io_schedule+0x42/0x70\n [958.659] folio_wait_bit_common+0x12b/0x330\n [958.660] ? folio_wait_bit_common+0x100/0x330\n [958.662] ? __pfx_wake_page_function+0x10/0x10\n [958.663] extent_write_cache_pages+0x599/0x830 [btrfs]\n [958.664] ? acpi_fwnode_get_reference_args+0x1fa/0x270\n [958.665] btrfs_writepages+0x77/0x130 [btrfs]\n [958.666] ? __pfx_end_bbio_data_write+0x10/0x10 [btrfs]\n [958.667] do_writepages+0xc6/0x160\n [958.668] __writeback_single_inode+0x42/0x310\n [958.669] writeback_sb_inodes+0x231/0x570\n [958.670] wb_writeback+0x8a/0x340\n [958.671] wb_workfn+0xbf/0x450\n [958.672] ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0xc1/0x350\n [958.673] process_one_work+0x19d/0x3a0\n [958.673] worker_thread+0x1c4/0x330\n [958.674] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n [958.675] kthread+0xfc/0x130\n [958.676] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n [958.676] ret_from_fork+0x1f7/0x2c0\n [958.677] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n [958.678] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n [958.679] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n [958.679] task:btrfs-cleaner state:D stack:0 pid:296750 tgid:296750 ppid:2 task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00080000\n [958.681] Call Trace:\n [958.682] \u003cTASK\u003e\n [958.682] __schedule+0x4be/0x10f0\n [958.683] schedule+0x26/0xd0\n [958.684] handle_reserve_ticket+0x1b9/0x2c0 [btrfs]\n [958.685] ? __pfx_autoremove_wake_function+0x10/0x10\n [958.686] reserve_bytes+0x283/0x4c0 [btrfs]\n [958.687] btrfs_reserve_metadata_bytes+0x18/0xb0 [btrfs]\n [958.688] btrfs_delalloc_reserve_metadata+0x121/0x320 [btrfs]\n [958.690] btrfs_delalloc_reserve_space+0x46/0xb0 [btrfs]\n [958.691] btrfs_defrag_file+0x903/0x1110 [btrfs]\n [958.692] btrfs_run_defrag_inodes+0x334/0x430 [btrfs]\n [958.694] cleaner_kthread+0x97/0x1c0 [btrfs]\n [958.694] ? __pfx_cleaner_kthread+0x10/0x10 [btrfs]\n [958.696] kthread+0xfc/0x130\n [958.696] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n [958.697] ret_\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"22b398eeeed43d51e85b1008e51bf9663ac1f491","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c97277aa6ce8ac725642aced0fe20cd8d31f6e09"},{"version":"22b398eeeed43d51e85b1008e51bf9663ac1f491","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37614074596827a5f292243673b699c90ff63e7d"},{"version":"22b398eeeed43d51e85b1008e51bf9663ac1f491","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9701dd06e82c345fe70debdf8835b7eb5000c59"},{"version":"22b398eeeed43d51e85b1008e51bf9663ac1f491","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac916391e1c70801649f7d6f85014f687983bc33"},{"version":"22b398eeeed43d51e85b1008e51bf9663ac1f491","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba02eab28041f9a4bbe9fc90c7249644fef6de0f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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