In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show()
Reading the debugfs "count" file of a memcg-aware shrinker can sleep
inside an RCU read-side critical section:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:421
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
css_rstat_flush
mem_cgroup_flush_stats
zswap_shrinker_count
shrinker_debugfs_count_show
shrinker_debugfs_count_show() invokes the ->count_objects() callback under
rcu_read_lock(). The zswap callback flushes memcg stats via
css_rstat_flush(), which may sleep, so it must not run under RCU.
The RCU lock is not needed here. mem_cgroup_iter() takes RCU internally
and returns a memcg holding a css reference (dropped on the next iteration
or by mem_cgroup_iter_break()), so the memcg stays alive without it. The
shrinker is kept alive by the open debugfs file: shrinker_free() removes
the debugfs entries via debugfs_remove_recursive(), which waits for
in-flight readers to drain, before call_rcu(..., shrinker_free_rcu_cb).
The sibling "scan" handler already invokes the sleeping ->scan_objects()
callback with no RCU section.
Drop the rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().
mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show()
Reading the debugfs "count" file of a memcg-aware shrinker can sleep
inside an RCU read-side critical section:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:421
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
css_rstat_flush
mem_cgroup_flush_stats
zswap_shrinker_count
shrinker_debugfs_count_show
shrinker_debugfs_count_show() invokes the ->count_objects() callback under
rcu_read_lock(). The zswap callback flushes memcg stats via
css_rstat_flush(), which may sleep, so it must not run under RCU.
The RCU lock is not needed here. mem_cgroup_iter() takes RCU internally
and returns a memcg holding a css reference (dropped on the next iteration
or by mem_cgroup_iter_break()), so the memcg stays alive without it. The
shrinker is kept alive by the open debugfs file: shrinker_free() removes
the debugfs entries via debugfs_remove_recursive(), which waits for
in-flight readers to drain, before call_rcu(..., shrinker_free_rcu_cb).
The sibling "scan" handler already invokes the sleeping ->scan_objects()
callback with no RCU section.
Drop the rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| Description | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show() Reading the debugfs "count" file of a memcg-aware shrinker can sleep inside an RCU read-side critical section: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:421 RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0 css_rstat_flush mem_cgroup_flush_stats zswap_shrinker_count shrinker_debugfs_count_show shrinker_debugfs_count_show() invokes the ->count_objects() callback under rcu_read_lock(). The zswap callback flushes memcg stats via css_rstat_flush(), which may sleep, so it must not run under RCU. The RCU lock is not needed here. mem_cgroup_iter() takes RCU internally and returns a memcg holding a css reference (dropped on the next iteration or by mem_cgroup_iter_break()), so the memcg stays alive without it. The shrinker is kept alive by the open debugfs file: shrinker_free() removes the debugfs entries via debugfs_remove_recursive(), which waits for in-flight readers to drain, before call_rcu(..., shrinker_free_rcu_cb). The sibling "scan" handler already invokes the sleeping ->scan_objects() callback with no RCU section. Drop the rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock(). | |
| Title | mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show() | |
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-25T08:50:58.342Z
Reserved: 2026-07-19T15:36:31.786Z
Link: CVE-2026-64419
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