CVE-2024-26658

A vulnerability was found in the bcachefs Linux kernel module which allows to a circular locking dependency, triggering a deadlock scenario during snapshot creation operations. This occurred due to the unconditional acquisition of s_umount in __bch2_ioctl_subvolume_create(), conflicting with existing locks held by other threads which leads to a deadlock situations.

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