CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-90140
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cuse: wait for pending RCU callbacks on module exit
Since commit 053fc4f755ad ("fuse: fix UAF in rcu pathwalks"),
fuse_conn_put() frees the fuse_conn through call_rcu() rather than
synchronously. For cuse, fc->release is cuse_fc_release(), which
lives in the cuse module. If the module is removed before the RCU
grace period ends, the callback jumps into freed module memory:
userspace / module unload | RCU softirq
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
close(/dev/cuse) |
cuse_channel_release() |
fuse_dev_release() |
fuse_conn_put(fch->conn) |
call_rcu(delayed_release) ------+---> callback queued
|
rmmod cuse |
cuse_exit() |
cuse_channel_destroy() |
... |
return |
|
<module text freed> |
| rcu_do_batch()
| delayed_release()
| fc->release()
| -> cuse_fc_release()
| ^^^ freed text!
The freed module text is unmapped by vfree(), so the jump into the
stale callback triggers a page-fault Oops. If the virtual address
is subsequently reused, the callback could execute unrelated code
(undefined behaviour).
Fix this by calling rcu_barrier() in cuse_exit() so that any pending
fuse_conn release callback completes before the module is removed.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/389bd349ddbcf90dbd8a4f2a4ab6e552d53df134 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45ae914b2f6ea56fc2f1c017fdee4e995bcb4c0e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4deb3edead0c0e172cc7349e8855d741d3c5e162 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fe415e1cd8fa875be263670c0ab47109818abb6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1b46aee33d83f14ed62d7fdef1a91d3e0b732a9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac5c499413385cea3e0220d6050408d50842891d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c40f3f24839f8404325a2099e26c2a04786ae309 git.kernel.org