CVE-2026-99171
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs3: free the sbi after a grace period If the "nocase" mount option ntfs3 uses custom hash and dentry compare functions. Both access ntfs3 superblock private information in rcu pathwalk. ntfs_put_super() and ntfs3_kill_sb() drop the info without any rcu delay. A lookup that's still inside the filesystem when the last reference to the mount is dropped causes a UAF. With a pathwalk held up in ntfs_d_hash() while the last reference to the mount goes away: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ntfs_nls_to_utf16+0x752/0x940 Read of size 8 at addr ff1100010453c850 by task walker/99 Call Trace: <TASK> ntfs_nls_to_utf16+0x752/0x940 ntfs_d_hash+0x22b/0x500 link_path_walk+0x11ad/0x1d30 path_lookupat+0x63/0xb00 filename_lookup+0x1f1/0x5b0 vfs_statx+0xd7/0x3b0 [...] Allocated by task 95: __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x249/0x560 ntfs_init_fs_context+0x2db/0x5a0 alloc_fs_context+0x52e/0xc70 [...] Freed by task 98: kfree+0x1db/0x5b0 deactivate_locked_super+0x9c/0xf0 cleanup_mnt+0x9f/0x130 task_work_run+0x131/0x250 The bug is currently masked by the grace period in namespace_unlock() for umount(2). Keep the necessary information until the filesystem private info is freed and free it with an rcu delay. ntfs3_free_sbi() now runs from an rcu callback and drops the upcase table via ntfs_put_shared(). So switch s_shared_lock over to spin_lock_bh(). Otherwise the callback can deadlock against a task holding the lock on the same cpu.
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{
"id": "CVE-2026-99171",
"sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"published": "2026-10-28T11:17:37.660",
"lastModified": "2026-10-28T11:17:37.660",
"vulnStatus": "Received",
"cveTags": [],
"descriptions": [
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"lang": "en",
"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs3: free the sbi after a grace period\n\nIf the \"nocase\" mount option ntfs3 uses custom hash and dentry compare\nfunctions. Both access ntfs3 superblock private information in rcu\npathwalk. ntfs_put_super() and ntfs3_kill_sb() drop the info without any\nrcu delay. A lookup that's still inside the filesystem when the last\nreference to the mount is dropped causes a UAF. With a pathwalk held up\nin ntfs_d_hash() while the last reference to the mount goes away:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ntfs_nls_to_utf16+0x752/0x940\n Read of size 8 at addr ff1100010453c850 by task walker/99\n Call Trace:\n <TASK>\n ntfs_nls_to_utf16+0x752/0x940\n ntfs_d_hash+0x22b/0x500\n link_path_walk+0x11ad/0x1d30\n path_lookupat+0x63/0xb00\n filename_lookup+0x1f1/0x5b0\n vfs_statx+0xd7/0x3b0\n [...]\n Allocated by task 95:\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x249/0x560\n ntfs_init_fs_context+0x2db/0x5a0\n alloc_fs_context+0x52e/0xc70\n [...]\n Freed by task 98:\n kfree+0x1db/0x5b0\n deactivate_locked_super+0x9c/0xf0\n cleanup_mnt+0x9f/0x130\n task_work_run+0x131/0x250\n\nThe bug is currently masked by the grace period in namespace_unlock()\nfor umount(2). Keep the necessary information until the filesystem\nprivate info is freed and free it with an rcu delay.\n\nntfs3_free_sbi() now runs from an rcu callback and drops the upcase\ntable via ntfs_put_shared(). So switch s_shared_lock over to\nspin_lock_bh(). Otherwise the callback can deadlock against a task\nholding the lock on the same cpu."
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