CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-90185
- 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:
null_blk: serialize configfs attribute stores with the lock
The NULLB_DEVICE_ATTR _store takes no lock: apply_fn attributes
(submit_queues, poll_queues) get dev->NAME written again after apply_fn
returns, outside its lock; APPLY=NULL attributes are entirely lockless.
configfs only serializes stores per-open-file, so concurrent stores on
separate fds race.
For apply_fn attributes, once one store's apply_fn has reconfigured the
hardware, a second (losing) store can still overwrite dev->NAME
afterwards. This leaves dev->submit_queues out of sync with the live
queue count, which is later caught by the WARN_ON_ONCE() in
null_map_queues().
For !apply_fn attributes, power_store()'s null_add_dev() validates and
builds the device under "lock" but only sets CONFIGURED afterwards. A store
slipping in during this window can change a field mid-setup -- for example,
zone_nr_conv can be pushed above nr_zones after it has already been
clamped, leading to an out-of-bounds dev->zones[] access.
Take "lock" in the macro around the apply_fn call, the CONFIGURED test and
the field write, and move it out of nullb_apply_submit_queues()/
nullb_apply_poll_queues() so both paths are covered once. This serializes
stores with power_store's setup and with each other.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3945ce8cbce4e328e6fdf0b522dc71e340de19db git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65cae82fd3c39b53430672cb9e3ecd267471a6ce git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e7fff51808237703a3a1df6dd5cae1dfd1db86d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88d806d0e1d36246208386a8e55b511c1b3d647c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e839ed5210399a0330a8a6c5885c1d40a537c6d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c70994c2862b05e44728912b2ea9487d31e2aea7 git.kernel.org