{"apiVersion":"1.0","identifier":"CVE-2026-72189","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: fail attrlist updates when the superblock is inactive generic_shutdown_super() clears SB_ACTIVE before evicting cached inodes. If eviction selects the fake inode for a base inode-s unnamed $ATTRIBUTE_LIST attribute, ntfs_evict_big_inode() drops the fake inode-s reference on the base inode while the fake inode is still hashed and marked I_FREEING. That iput can synchronously write back the base inode. The writeback path may update mapping pairs and call ntfs_attrlist_update(), which unconditionally calls ntfs_attr_iget() for the same $ATTRIBUTE_LIST fake inode. VFS then finds the I_FREEING inode and waits for eviction to finish, but the current task is still inside that eviction path, causing a self-deadlock in find_inode(). Fix this by mirroring the teardown guard used by __ntfs_write_inode(): once SB_ACTIVE has been cleared, do not try to iget the attribute-list fake inode. Return -EIO so teardown aborts the update instead of waiting on the inode it is evicting.","publishedAt":"2026-08-15T06:21:37","lastModifiedAt":"2026-08-17T06:18:19","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72189","cvssScore":null,"cvssVector":"Pending","epssProbability":0.00189,"riskScore":0,"affectedProduct":"linux","affectedVersions":"unknown","vulnerabilityType":"Kernel","operatingSystems":[],"links":{"self":"https://www.redsauce.net/api/cves/CVE-2026-72189","webPages":{"es":"https://www.redsauce.net/es/cves/CVE-2026-72189","en":"https://www.redsauce.net/en/cves/CVE-2026-72189","fr":"https://www.redsauce.net/fr/cves/CVE-2026-72189","pt":"https://www.redsauce.net/pt/cves/CVE-2026-72189","de":"https://www.redsauce.net/de/cves/CVE-2026-72189","sk":"https://www.redsauce.net/sk/cves/CVE-2026-72189","el":"https://www.redsauce.net/el/cves/CVE-2026-72189"},"source":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72189"}}