In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm cache policy smq: fix missing locks in invalidating cache blocks
In passthrough mode, the policy invalidate_mapping operation is called
simultaneously from multiple workers, thus it should be protected by a
lock. Otherwise, we might end up with data races on the allocated blocks
counter, or even use-after-free issues with internal data structures
when doing concurrent writes.
Note that the existing FIXME in smq_invalidate_mapping() doesn't affect
passthrough mode since migration tasks don't exist there, but would need
attention if supporting fast device shrinking via suspend/resume without
target reloading.
Reproduce steps:
1. Create a cache device consisting of 1024 cache entries
dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0"
dmsetup create cdata --table "0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192"
dmsetup create corig --table "0 262144 linear /dev/sdc 262144"
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct
dmsetup create cache --table "0 262144 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \
/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0"
2. Populate the cache, and record the number of cached blocks
fio --name=populate --filename=/dev/mapper/cache --rw=randwrite --bs=4k \
--size=64m --direct=1
nr_cached=$(dmsetup status cache | awk '{split($7, a, "/"); print a[1]}')
3. Reload the cache into passthrough mode
dmsetup suspend cache
dmsetup reload cache --table "0 262144 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \
/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 passthrough smq 0"
dmsetup resume cache
4. Write to the passthrough cache. By setting multiple jobs with I/O
size equal to the cache block size, cache blocks are invalidated
concurrently from different workers.
fio --filename=/dev/mapper/cache --name=test --rw=randwrite --bs=64k \
--direct=1 --numjobs=2 --randrepeat=0 --size=64m
5. Check if demoted matches cached block count. These numbers should
match but may differ due to the data race.
nr_demoted=$(dmsetup status cache | awk '{print $12}')
echo "$nr_cached, $nr_demoted"
References
Configurations
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History
21 Jul 2026, 17:36
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| First Time |
Linux linux Kernel
Linux |
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| CWE | CWE-667 | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b2bec4a7dcf5f00b7a1cbeeec8997841d783513 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b62d0611c9af14a16bddf22df2612b4f40eb5a1 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d1f7b65f5deedd2e6b09fdc6ea27f8375f24b45 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4991b5a08751e2e82488fb93ae08849b6aea10d9 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93627a29d4b66d4a2def938dfb8610cc80ae454b - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a5fdfb9e57ec3a8ad2b8fce5e5ffa42d53b130e - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac5ee99443891bdb161f5539606a66a1b5e72542 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c348ae47d8e65f06429fa41adce9ad986b696766 - Patch |
28 Jun 2026, 08:16
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| CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.8 |
24 Jun 2026, 17:17
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| New CVE |
Information
Published : 2026-06-24 17:17
Updated : 2026-07-21 17:36
NVD link : CVE-2026-53062
Mitre link : CVE-2026-53062
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-53062
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-667
Improper Locking