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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98539" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:06.921Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:22.671Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-98539" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98539.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98539" title: "fs/ntfs3: use d_instantiate_new() in ntfs_create_inode() and murder syzbot's \"WARNING in do_new_mount\" saga" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: use d_instantiate_new() in ntfs_create_inode() and murder syzbot's \"WARNING in do_new_mount\" saga\n\nntfs_create_inode() creates a new inode via ntfs_new_inode(). It hashes\nit with insert_inode_locked() and so it's marked as I_NEW until\nunlock_new_inode().\n\nntfs 3 calls d_instantiate() in between though... Since the dentry was\nalready hashed by the lookup before the create any path walk finds it\nwithout touching the parent's i_rwsem and so can lock the inode.\n\nIf the inode is a directory unlock_new_inode() calls\nlockdep_annotate_inode_mutex_key() and marks i_rwsem with the\ni_mutex_dir_key class.\n\nThat resets the count and the owner of a lock somebody else may already\nhold by now...\n\nsyzbot has been spamming us with the same godforsaken bug\n\n \"WARNING in do_new_mount\"\n\nsince 2023. I can't take it anymore so I went looking. Afaict, syzbot's\nexecutor chdirs into a freshly mounted ntfs3 image, creates a\ndirectory and then mounts some pseudofs on it. Everytime the mkdir()\ntakes longer than syzbot waits mount() runs concurrently:\n\n mkdir(\"./sys\") mount(NULL, \"./sys\", \"sysfs\")\n ntfs_create_inode()\n d_instantiate()\n user_path_at() finds the dentry\n do_lock_mount()\n inode_lock(inode)\n namespace_lock()\n unlock_new_inode()\n lockdep_annotate_inode_mutex_key()\n init_rwsem(&inode-\u003ei_rwsem)\n unlock_mount()\n inode_unlock(inode)\n\nThe mount side then releases a lock that according to the rwsem nobody\nholds:\n\n DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON((rwsem_owner(sem) != current) && ...):\n count = 0x0, magic = 0xffff888043a854e8, owner = 0x0,\n curr 0xffff888000244880, list empty\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5346 at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1368 __up_write\n Call Trace:\n inode_unlock include/linux/fs.h:877 [inline]\n unlock_mount fs/namespace.c:2892 [inline]\n do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3828 [inline]\n do_new_mount+0x777/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3887\n\nOn PREEMPT_RT the same thing shows up as\n\n DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(rt_mutex_owner(lock) != current)\n WARNING: kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:193 at rt_mutex_slowunlock\n\nThe up_write() underflows the reset count. A following inode_lock() on\nthat directory then never returns. A path walk into the new directory\nracing with the mkdir() corrupts the lock the same way via\ninode_lock_shared() in lookup_slow().\n\nSwitch to d_instantiate_new() and drop the trailing unlock_new_inode().\nAll error paths bail out before that point with I_NEW still set and\nkeep using discard_new_inode().\n\nMay we never see this fscking bug report again." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6fda7121cb6a8ea6fbd77d0f787f04b8e8b5358e"},{"version":"82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37ec7353f4ac495b28284b0fcb0e53d21d1b3f3f"},{"version":"82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ae2a242c15b03470b1b16289298e597bbe3bb29"},{"version":"82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1abd643f3783ea8f8e273c18697ff0413aa92dc7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","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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