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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98986"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:20:04.966Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:20:04.966Z"
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-2026-98986"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98986.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98986"
title: "namespace: remove the fsnotify marks of a mount namespace in process context"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnamespace: remove the fsnotify marks of a mount namespace in process context\n\nmnt_ns_release() drops the last passive reference of a mount namespace\nand removes its fanotify marks via fsnotify_mntns_delete(). That takes\nthe mutex of every group with a mark on the namespace and the spinlock\nof the connector. Fine from process context. But mnt_ns_tree_remove()\nhands the reference the namespace was allocated with to call_rcu() and\nso the marks are removed from the RCU softirq:\n\n  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:623\n  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/3\n   __mutex_lock+0x113/0x24b0\n   fsnotify_destroy_marks+0x11b/0x3d0\n   mnt_ns_release_rcu+0x57/0xa0\n   rcu_core+0x6b6/0x1e40\n\nand lockdep complains about the connector lock being taken from softirq\ncontext. A fanotify group with a FAN_MARK_MNTNS mark on the mount\nnamespace of another task is all that's needed. Root in a user\nnamespace can do that for a mount namespace it owns. The task exits and\nthe namespace is freed with the mark still on it.\n\nRemove the marks in free_mnt_ns() before the namespace is handed to RCU.\nThat runs in process context once the last active reference is gone. A\nmark is added through a file descriptor to the namespace which holds an\nactive reference so no mark can show up after that."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bf630c40164162ba1d3933c2f5e3397d083e0948","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"888363d74c3b5d32e2accf217add70f8b38e0e2b"},{"version":"bf630c40164162ba1d3933c2f5e3397d083e0948","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e820a6becdd955a04adbedfd767253a47eedd9e"},{"version":"bf630c40164162ba1d3933c2f5e3397d083e0948","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a116222acdcc1bc1a8350727ae6f28907d44594"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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