---
cve: "CVE-2026-45924"
severity: "LOW"
cvss: 3.1
epss: "12%"
vendor: "Linux"
kev: false
exploited: false
published: "2026-05-27 14:17:07"
tags: [cve, security, low]
source: tsecurity.de CVE-Dossier
exported: "2026-09-17T06:21:48+02:00"
---

# CVE-2026-45924

> 3.1 LOW

## Beschreibung

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

ksmbd: call ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_end_removing() on some error paths

There are two places where ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_end_removing() needs to be
called in order to balance what the corresponding successful call to
ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_start_removing() has done, i.e. drop inode locks and
put the taken references.  Otherwise there might be potential deadlocks
and unbalanced locks which are caught like:

BUG: workqueue leaked lock or atomic: kworker/5:21/0x00000000/7596
     last function: handle_ksmbd_work
2 locks held by kworker/5:21/7596:
 #0: ffff8881051ae448 (sb_writers#3){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_locked+0x142/0x660
 #1: ffff888130e966c0 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#3/1){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_locked+0x17d/0x660
CPU: 5 PID: 7596 Comm: kworker/5:21 Not tainted 6.1.162-00456-gc29b353f383b #138
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work
Call Trace:
 
 dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5b
 process_one_work.cold+0x57/0x5c
 worker_thread+0x82/0x600
 kthread+0x153/0x190
 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
 

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).

## Patch verfügbar (OSV)

- Kernel ≥ 5.15.203
- Kernel ≥ 6.1.167
- Kernel ≥ 6.6.130
- Kernel ≥ 6.12.78
- Kernel ≥ 6.18.17
- Kernel ≥ 6.19.4

## Referenzen

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e3a3192ef78d8302916408d62813b1fddfc8972>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f221baa80e5959a0c08a7e34abbf2a4d3cf0e1c2>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf29329a13df79c198b45dfc92577638d30b56fa>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34d6691933682f0516259a31b39d2cebcedec0a5>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c578e8065c4b08d5635a4cbc0f6321df9d20f79>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c38600feb81c670edb82e49d201d3d2d00cd4c3>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a09dc10d1353f0e92c21eae2a79af1c2b1ddcde8>

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_Exportiert aus dem [tsecurity.de CVE-Dossier](https://tsecurity.de/cve?cve=CVE-2026-45924) · Datenquellen: EUVD (ENISA), NVD, OSV, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Exploit-DB, BSI BITS_
