CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-90250
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, cgroup: Fix storage null-ptr-deref after replacing prog
Syzkaller reported a storage null-ptr-deref issue after replacing prog.
This occurs in the following scenario:
1. prog A, an empty prog, is attached to a cgrp.
2. prog B uses BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_CGROUP_STORAGE and calls the
bpf_get_local_storage helper.
3. link_update is called to replace prog A with prog B.
The reason is that __cgroup_bpf_replace fails to alloc and assign the
required cgrp storage for the incoming replacement prog. Consequently,
the new prog inherits an uninit storage, leading to null-ptr-deref panic
when kick the new prog.
Fix this by rejecting a link update if new_prog's cgroup storage is
incompatible with link->prog.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12feca126831556dc7fabe5a3ba28fbd328768b6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16c8321ee40c420f8e02e09515a5126682ddf4ea git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ab3da12061d7ccb099f7e925fa2d865967a316a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f562c537e9ecf4bc5e206cfffc2cc047f1b7e94 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a033c950f6731be88a7da98604ed78f302f15b80 git.kernel.org