CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89953
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mtd: mtdoops: free page bitmap when the backing MTD is removed
mtdoops_notify_add() allocates oops_page_used when the configured MTD
device is registered. mtdoops_notify_remove() detaches from that device
but leaves the bitmap allocated. If the same MTD device is later
registered again, the add path allocates a new bitmap and overwrites the
old pointer, leaking one vmalloc allocation per remove/add cycle.
This is only visible when the backing MTD device can disappear and be
registered again while mtdoops remains loaded, so the usual static MTD
case does not expose it.
Free the bitmap after unregistering the dumper and flushing the pending
workers, then clear the pointer and page count before a later attach can
allocate fresh state. Clearing the pointer also keeps the module exit
path from freeing the same bitmap a second time after a remove event.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e5cd8bc902331ff801df88cbb299029ae062753 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/477d61d54e097e90f748aa18d013805abd56bcbd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/698944132083d143ef965c0090ee14ba1d9e1a5f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8414f0e9f707226de20b48c7048179fd86d352fc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/956e7da12c114f13c63d126ab1d79c3b6a819060 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a91ac71e67c3e01ed9afd9841435bebb930293f8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d06f91a52af11630c9f7e487f6daf242ac310cb8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f25c804947e0a28c15e73da8e2e0db959cbed716 git.kernel.org