Answer in brief
CVE-2026-64419 records a Medium severity (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show(). The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 5.5. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed versions |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | Not reported | Not reported |
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=5035ebc644aec92d55d1bbfe042f35341e4bffb5 <de5f69b8dae8698ac5e48dfcd30017887cdf4e5a || >=5035ebc644aec92d55d1bbfe042f35341e4bffb5 <e441cbfbd0eaa6404278e985033c33caba4db767 || >=5035ebc644aec92d55d1bbfe042f35341e4bffb5 <2fed79f0fe8c8d28a972c290dbfd693c3546c8c4 || >=5035ebc644aec92d55d1bbfe042f35341e4bffb5 <560e21e8ccff813e84d05f6500907c549a3d6985 || >=5035ebc644aec92d55d1bbfe042f35341e4bffb5 <86237e56091e70f09c0fbf217f9d9c0e08f556c4 || >=5035ebc644aec92d55d1bbfe042f35341e4bffb5 <b902890c62d200b3509cb5e09cf1e0a66553c128 | de5f69b8dae8698ac5e48dfcd30017887cdf4e5a, e441cbfbd0eaa6404278e985033c33caba4db767, 2fed79f0fe8c8d28a972c290dbfd693c3546c8c4, 560e21e8ccff813e84d05f6500907c549a3d6985, 86237e56091e70f09c0fbf217f9d9c0e08f556c4, b902890c62d200b3509cb5e09cf1e0a66553c128 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 6.0 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Jul 25, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 4, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 11, 2026
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().
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