CVE-2026-43065

EUVD-2026-27363
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: always drain queued discard work in ext4_mb_release()

While reviewing recent ext4 patch[1], Sashiko raised the following
concern[2]:

> If the filesystem is initially mounted with the discard option,
> deleting files will populate sbi->s_discard_list and queue
> s_discard_work. If it is then remounted with nodiscard, the
> EXT4_MOUNT_DISCARD flag is cleared, but the pending s_discard_work is
> neither cancelled nor flushed.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260319094545.19291-1-qiang.zhang@linux.dev/
[2] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260319094545.19291-1-qiang.zhang%40linux.dev

The concern was valid, but it had nothing to do with the patch[1].
One of the problems with Sashiko in its current (early) form is that
it will detect pre-existing issues and report it as a problem with the
patch that it is reviewing.

In practice, it would be hard to hit deliberately (unless you are a
malicious syzkaller fuzzer), since it would involve mounting the file
system with -o discard, and then deleting a large number of files,
remounting the file system with -o nodiscard, and then immediately
unmounting the file system before the queued discard work has a change
to drain on its own.

Fix it because it's a real bug, and to avoid Sashiko from raising this
concern when analyzing future patches to mballoc.c.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
UNKNOWN
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 6%
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