CVE-2026-89647
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: do not repeat ceph_trim_dentries() if no progress possible ceph_cap_reclaim_work() re-queues itself for as long as ceph_trim_dentries() returns -EAGAIN, which happens whenever a lease walk exhausts its `nr_to_scan` budget. This creates a busy loop that consumes CPU without making any progress when there is nothing to reclaim: with no cap pressure (`count==0`) and every scanned lease still valid, each pass runs the full scan budget down to zero and returns `-EAGAIN`, only to be queued again immediately. The dir-lease walk made this worse. When `expire_dir_lease` is `false` (i.e. we have no intention of reclaiming dir leases), __dir_lease_check() returned `TOUCH` for every valid lease. `TOUCH` moves the dentry to the tail of the list and resets `di->time` via __dentry_dir_lease_touch(), so a walk over N valid leases pointlessly rewrote the list, refreshed the timestamps (preventing them from ever aging out) and always drained `nr_to_scan`, guaranteeing the `-EAGAIN` requeue. Fix this in three steps: - Return `KEEP` instead of `TOUCH` when `expire_dir_lease` is `false`. If we are not going to reclaim the lease, leave it in place instead of churning the list and resetting its timestamp; the walk then terminates naturally (or via `STOP` at the first fresh lease). - Only return `-EAGAIN` from the first (dentry-lease) walk when something was actually freed. A full batch that frees nothing means retrying the same list immediately is futile; fall through to the dir-lease walk instead. - After both walks, bail out with success (0) when nothing was freed and there is no cap pressure (`count==0`). There is no reason to keep retrying when we are not over the cap limit and made no progress. Under real cap pressure (`count>0`) the reclaim path is unchanged and still retries via `-EAGAIN`. Without this patch, I saw 500 ceph_trim_dentries() calls per second on our web servers. This is very visible in `/proc/lock_stat` (5 minute capture): class name con-bounces contentions waittime-min waittime-max waittime-total waittime-avg acq-bounces acquisitions holdtime-min holdtime-max holdtime-total holdtime-avg &mdsc->dentry_list_lock: 126180 128218 0.04 8063.44 15986965.20 124.69 1573354 5296812 0.04 8291.28 74164526.48 14.00 ----------------------- &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 111736 [<000000007b11e319>] __ceph_dentry_dir_lease_touch+0x7c/0xa8 &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 2631 [<0000000050597999>] __dentry_leases_walk+0x64/0x2c8 &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 3878 [<00000000c0022f62>] __ceph_dentry_lease_touch+0x5c/0xa8 &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 9973 [<000000002f27cb6f>] __dentry_lease_unlist+0x50/0xa0 ----------------------- &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 123621 [<0000000050597999>] __dentry_leases_walk+0x64/0x2c8 &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 1822 [<000000007b11e319>] __ceph_dentry_dir_lease_touch+0x7c/0xa8 &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 2720 [<000000002f27cb6f>] __dentry_lease_unlist+0x50/0xa0 &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 55 [<00000000c0022f62>] __ceph_dentry_lease_touch+0x5c/0xa8 With this patch: class name con-bounces contentions waittime-min waittime-max waittime-total waittime-avg acq-bounces acquisitions holdtime-min holdtime-max holdtime-total holdtime-avg &mdsc->dentry_list_lock: 1203 1215 0.16 408.88 33082.88 27.23 4320501 7357389 0.04 500.64 1961578.00 0.27 ----------------------- &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 1029 [<000000003c9aea8a>] __ceph_dentry_dir_lease_touch+0x7c/0xa8 &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 1 ---truncated---
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"id": "CVE-2026-89647",
"sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"published": "2026-09-11T20:19:50.607",
"lastModified": "2026-10-30T13:20:24.127",
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nceph: do not repeat ceph_trim_dentries() if no progress possible\n\nceph_cap_reclaim_work() re-queues itself for as long as\nceph_trim_dentries() returns -EAGAIN, which happens whenever a lease\nwalk exhausts its `nr_to_scan` budget. This creates a busy loop that\nconsumes CPU without making any progress when there is nothing to\nreclaim: with no cap pressure (`count==0`) and every scanned lease\nstill valid, each pass runs the full scan budget down to zero and\nreturns `-EAGAIN`, only to be queued again immediately.\n\nThe dir-lease walk made this worse. When `expire_dir_lease` is\n`false` (i.e. we have no intention of reclaiming dir leases),\n__dir_lease_check() returned `TOUCH` for every valid lease. `TOUCH`\nmoves the dentry to the tail of the list and resets `di->time` via\n__dentry_dir_lease_touch(), so a walk over N valid leases pointlessly\nrewrote the list, refreshed the timestamps (preventing them from ever\naging out) and always drained `nr_to_scan`, guaranteeing the `-EAGAIN`\nrequeue.\n\nFix this in three steps:\n\n - Return `KEEP` instead of `TOUCH` when `expire_dir_lease` is\n `false`. If we are not going to reclaim the lease, leave it in\n place instead of churning the list and resetting its timestamp; the\n walk then terminates naturally (or via `STOP` at the first fresh\n lease).\n\n - Only return `-EAGAIN` from the first (dentry-lease) walk when something\n was actually freed. A full batch that frees nothing means retrying\n the same list immediately is futile; fall through to the dir-lease\n walk instead.\n\n - After both walks, bail out with success (0) when nothing was freed\n and there is no cap pressure (`count==0`). There is no reason to\n keep retrying when we are not over the cap limit and made no\n progress.\n\nUnder real cap pressure (`count>0`) the reclaim path is unchanged and\nstill retries via `-EAGAIN`.\n\nWithout this patch, I saw 500 ceph_trim_dentries() calls per second on\nour web servers. This is very visible in `/proc/lock_stat` (5 minute\ncapture):\n\n class name con-bounces contentions waittime-min waittime-max waittime-total waittime-avg acq-bounces acquisitions holdtime-min holdtime-max holdtime-total holdtime-avg\n\n &mdsc->dentry_list_lock: 126180 128218 0.04 8063.44 15986965.20 124.69 1573354 5296812 0.04 8291.28 74164526.48 14.00\n -----------------------\n &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 111736 [<000000007b11e319>] __ceph_dentry_dir_lease_touch+0x7c/0xa8\n &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 2631 [<0000000050597999>] __dentry_leases_walk+0x64/0x2c8\n &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 3878 [<00000000c0022f62>] __ceph_dentry_lease_touch+0x5c/0xa8\n &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 9973 [<000000002f27cb6f>] __dentry_lease_unlist+0x50/0xa0\n -----------------------\n &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 123621 [<0000000050597999>] __dentry_leases_walk+0x64/0x2c8\n &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 1822 [<000000007b11e319>] __ceph_dentry_dir_lease_touch+0x7c/0xa8\n &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 2720 [<000000002f27cb6f>] __dentry_lease_unlist+0x50/0xa0\n &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 55 [<00000000c0022f62>] __ceph_dentry_lease_touch+0x5c/0xa8\n\nWith this patch:\n\n class name con-bounces contentions waittime-min waittime-max waittime-total waittime-avg acq-bounces acquisitions holdtime-min holdtime-max holdtime-total holdtime-avg\n\n &mdsc->dentry_list_lock: 1203 1215 0.16 408.88 33082.88 27.23 4320501 7357389 0.04 500.64 1961578.00 0.27\n -----------------------\n &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 1029 [<000000003c9aea8a>] __ceph_dentry_dir_lease_touch+0x7c/0xa8\n &mdsc->dentry_list_lock 1\n---truncated---"
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