CVE-2026-80527

ceph: fix hanging __ceph_get_caps() with stale mds_wanted

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Aug 26, 2026
Updated
Oct 16, 2026
Reserved
Aug 26, 2026

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Description

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

ceph: fix hanging __ceph_get_caps() with stale mds_wanted

A reader can hang forever in __ceph_get_caps() when the client no longer holds `FILE_RD`, but local cap state still says that the capability is already wanted (via `mds_wanted`).

One way to trigger this is through MDS cap revocation. If another client performs a conflicting operation, the MDS can revoke `FILE_RD` from the reader; the next read then has to reacquire `FILE_RD`. If the cap update that should request `FILE_RD` never reaches the MDS after `cap->mds_wanted` was raised, the reader is left holding only non-file caps while local `mds_wanted` still includes the file read caps.

In that state, try_get_cap_refs() sees `need <= mds_wanted` and returns 0, so __ceph_get_caps() just waits on `i_cap_wq`. If the cap update that was supposed to request `FILE_RD never reaches the MDS after `cap->mds_wanted was` raised, no further request is sent and the waiter can sleep indefinitely until unrelated cap traffic happens to wake it up.

The ordering issue is that `cap->mds_wanted` is updated in __prep_cap() before the `CEPH_MSG_CLIENT_CAPS message` is actually queued for send. That makes one field serve two different meanings at once: what this client wants, and what the client believes the MDS already knows it wants.

A proper fix would be to split those states and track whether a cap update is actually in flight or has been observed by the MDS. However, simply moving the `cap->mds_wanted assignment` later would not be sufficient: queueing the message in the messenger does not guarantee that the MDS processed that specific wanted set, and reconnect or message loss can still invalidate that assumption. Fixing that properly would require a larger rework of the cap state machine.

To allow simpler backports to stable kernels, this patch implements a simpler workaround:

- stop waiting forever in __ceph_get_caps(); after a bounded wait, fall back to the renew path

- make ceph_renew_caps() issue a synchronous `OPEN` request whenever the inode still does not actually hold the wanted caps, instead of only calling ceph_check_caps()

The extra issued-vs-wanted check in ceph_renew_caps() is necessary because the previous test only checked whether the inode still had any real caps at all. That is not enough after revocation: the client can still hold something like `pLs` and yet be missing `FILE_RD` completely. In that case, falling back to ceph_check_caps() is not sufficient, because it still trusts `cap->mds_wanted` and may resend nothing. By requiring `(issued & wanted) == wanted` before taking the asynchronous path, the code only uses ceph_check_caps() when the `wanted caps` are already actually issued. Otherwise, it sends the synchronous `OPEN` renew.

This preserves the existing asynchronous fast path when the wanted caps are already issued, avoids changing cap-state semantics, and fixes the hang by guaranteeing that a stalled waiter eventually retries through a path that does not rely on the stale `mds_wanted` state.

[ idryomov: move CEPH_GET_CAPS_WAIT_TIMEOUT from libceph.h to mds_client.h, formatting ]

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c to before b5661524c5a45085a866864ca9b8ae2513dfd67aAffected
  • 0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c to before 5e84bc6f67e19fdd192d8b215de728acbfc12572Affected
  • 0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c to before 5fedf279a1ea369d39c8b06dd4547cdc576065d0Affected
  • 0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c to before e05c315b4da0c16ea800ee4b2cb6c617f586d1b5Affected
  • 0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c to before fcce1b3be6d286aa80831e730289f4c062053ae6Affected
  • 0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c to before a3bc6b3e9ef3f5f5cb85a902a30a090c7931127cAffected
  • 0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c to before 9e55fe24c548ad3163903eb58bb002d28d32a630Affected
  • 0a454bdd501ad1aa30bb72e9581efa338ad6ce5c to before 50958bb928bad3bdba9e5d1b7ff4bbadcf6951e6Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.8Affected
  • before 5.8Not affected
  • 5.10.266 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.217 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.184 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.153 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.105 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.46 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.10 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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