CVE-2026-64596

libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 6, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()

Since commit 1e7ab6f67824 ("anon_inode: rework assertions"), path_noexec() warns when an anonymous-inode file is mmap'd from a superblock that has not set SB_I_NOEXEC. dma-buf backs its files this way and never set the flag, so mmap of any exported buffer trips the warning on a CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS=y kernel:

WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 121813 at fs/exec.c:118 path_noexec+0x47/0x50 do_mmap+0x2b5/0x680 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x129/0x210 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x177/0x240 __x64_sys_mmap+0x33/0x70

init_pseudo() sets up internal SB_NOUSER mounts that are never path-reachable. Set both flags here so every pseudo filesystem gets them by default instead of each caller setting them.

SB_I_NODEV is inert for unreachable mounts. SB_I_NOEXEC has one visible effect: an executable mapping of a pseudo-fs fd, such as a dma-buf, now fails with -EPERM, which is the invariant the assertion enforces. No in-tree caller maps these executable.

Reproduce on CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS=y:

make -C tools/testing/selftests/dmabuf-heaps sudo ./tools/testing/selftests/dmabuf-heaps/dmabuf-heap -t system

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1e7ab6f67824343ee3e96f100f0937c393749a8a to before b9d45d328fcda4f0d3d281b7d6f12d3f181d9381Affected
  • 1e7ab6f67824343ee3e96f100f0937c393749a8a to before 8e931557b317f0fb414839fa51fae1d5feb0ad97Affected
  • 1e7ab6f67824343ee3e96f100f0937c393749a8a to before 6de2aeffabaafaeda819e60ec8d04f199711e11aAffected
  • 9b8076a9404568d6cb6673b9a079558b15051966Affected
  • 6.15.6 to before 6.16Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.16Affected
  • before 6.16Not affected
  • 6.18.39 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.4 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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