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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-92501" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:10:14.753Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:04:07.250Z" 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-2026-92501" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-92501.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-92501" title: "ext4: drain in-flight DIO before buffered write fallback" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: drain in-flight DIO before buffered write fallback\n\ngeneric/746 started failing intermittently on ext3 (no-extent inodes).\nThe test triggers 'Page cache invalidation failure on direct I/O'\nwarnings and subsequent fsync returns -EIO. Adding a 50ms delay\nbetween ext4_buffered_write_iter() and filemap_write_and_wait_range()\nin ext4_dio_write_iter() makes the race almost always reproducible.\n\nOn no-extent inodes, DIO writes to holes cannot use unwritten extents,\nso ext4_iomap_alloc() leaves m_flags=0 and ext4_map_blocks() returns 0.\nThe iomap layer then returns -ENOTBLK, causing fallback to buffered I/O.\n\nThe fallback path in ext4_dio_write_iter() calls\next4_buffered_write_iter() which dirties pages, then does flush and\ninvalidate. However, there's an unprotected window between\next4_buffered_write_iter() returning (with inode lock released) and\nthe subsequent flush+invalidate.\n\nConcurrent async DIO completions from other threads can run\nkiocb_invalidate_post_direct_write() during this window. If pages have\nbeen re-dirtied, post-invalidation finds dirty pages and triggers the\nwarning, setting -EIO in the error sequence.\n\nConsider a file with two 4k extents: [hole][written]. Thread A does\nDIO to the written extent, while thread B does DIO spanning both:\n\n kworker A (4k DIO, allocated block) kworker B (8k DIO, fallback)\n ----------------------------------- ----------------------------\n inode_lock_shared() inode_lock_shared()\n iomap_dio_rw(): iomap_dio_rw():\n kiocb_invalidate_pages -\u003e clean iomap_begin -\u003e -ENOTBLK\n submit_bio (async) dio-\u003esize = 0\n inode_unlock_shared() inode_unlock_shared()\n\n [bio pending in block layer] /* fallback: lock released */\n ext4_buffered_write_iter()\n inode_lock(exclusive)\n generic_perform_write()\n -\u003e dirty pages [0, 8k]\n inode_unlock(exclusive)\n\n /* pages dirty, no lock */\n [bio completes] filemap_write_and_wait_range()\n iomap_dio_complete() -\u003e flush dirty pages\n kiocb_invalidate_post_direct_write() invalidate_mapping_pages()\n invalidate_inode_pages2_range()\n -\u003e finds dirty page!\n -\u003e dio_warn_stale_pagecache()\n -\u003e errseq_set(-EIO)\n\nThis issue can be triggered through normal I/O paths, not just\nintentionally overlapping DIO writes from userspace. For example,\ngeneric/746 uses a loop device where multiple kworkers issue concurrent\nI/O to the backing file. Additionally, when block_size \u003c folio_size,\nnon-overlapping DIO writes that share a large folio can also trigger\nthe race.\n\nAdd inode_dio_wait() in ext4_buffered_write_iter() before\next4_write_checks() to drain all in-flight DIO. This ensures that\nall DIO clears existing pages before submitting IO (via\nkiocb_invalidate_pages()), all BIO waits for all DIO to complete\n(via inode_dio_wait()), and ext4_write_checks() observes the inode\nsize after all completed DIO so that ext4_block_zero_eof() does not\nrace with in-flight DIO, thus eliminating the race." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"378f32bab3714f04c4e0c3aee4129f6703805550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd7e0dab20837b9ea1eeef7c26f78ace8ac8258c"},{"version":"378f32bab3714f04c4e0c3aee4129f6703805550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0af3ae09fb72382da1a5371bf6761b0264668e4"},{"version":"378f32bab3714f04c4e0c3aee4129f6703805550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7341e234927ff215f1d5d0bcfe04b74f53af378d"},{"version":"378f32bab3714f04c4e0c3aee4129f6703805550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"74eee4ff9698a65b2e6e15dac0e50d6526ad5f20"},{"version":"378f32bab3714f04c4e0c3aee4129f6703805550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d47cdadd6e49023f7ee248048463807f1214f1ee"},{"version":"378f32bab3714f04c4e0c3aee4129f6703805550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4e4e3eec506247c8f8bd8aaa1eb25e67016681a5"},{"version":"378f32bab3714f04c4e0c3aee4129f6703805550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9fd3ffc3c51c9deaba99bd7b338fff2d08f52416"},{"version":"378f32bab3714f04c4e0c3aee4129f6703805550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"15cdefd0c0522f9d5e12d947fa04f4c11649b699"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","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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