CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-46256

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.10%

1th percentile - higher than 1% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the LOCALIO mechanism (NFS loopback optimization) is vulnerable to recursive deadlock during direct reclaim. Page cache allocations can trigger nfs_writepages, causing a deadlock.

Risk Assessment

A system deadlock can occur under heavy NFS LOCALIO usage, leading to a complete filesystem hang.

Recommendation

Apply the kernel patch that forces GFP_NOFS context for LOCALIO page cache allocations.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS/localio: prevent direct reclaim recursion into NFS via nfs_writepages LOCALIO is an NFS loopback mount optimization that avoids using the network for READ, WRITE and COMMIT if the NFS client and server are determined to be on the same system. But because LOCALIO is still fundamentally "just NFS loopback mount" it is susceptible to recursion deadlock via direct reclaim, e.g.: NFS LOCALIO down to XFS and then back into NFS via nfs_writepages. Fix LOCALIO's potential for direct reclaim deadlock by ensuring that all its page cache allocations are done from GFP_NOFS context. Thanks to Ben Coddington for pointing out commit ad22c7a043c2 ("xfs: prevent stack overflows from page cache allocation").

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