CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-90420
- 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:
nilfs2: fix infinite loop in nilfs_clean_segments()
syzbot reported a hung task in nilfs_transaction_begin(). This occurs
because the cleaner ioctl falls into an infinite loop if
nilfs_segctor_construct() repeatedly returns -EROFS (e.g. the device
is remounted as read-only after an I/O error).
Currently in nilfs_clean_segments(), if err is non-zero, it logs the
error and sleeps but doesn't abort when it encounters a terminal error
like -EROFS. This causes the thread to loop forever.
Fix this by breaking out of the loop if nilfs_segctor_construct()
returns -EROFS. This matches the behaviour in
nilfs_segctor_write_out(), which also handles -EROFS.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fc6df85b4954b6fda9c351843aaca3c06f66d8d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/217b967ad7887a3e1ebc08f46f6484e081acd4b4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bcdbdaac884a4baa59716cf9bd9470c75276e2d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cea0bc78ac64cb88da49c07f80bf2cf9fb7aff8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c07e5ad6539e7e9350d5c65cbf8adb69d1711b15 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce5a5ad1a8330a2fcfdd9ec2ab341be739e89a18 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7afca8e4efbf4c455b4663c29ae59fde2f1b671 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3e9367dae1a6392cbb14ab0b2ab5edbf39735c3 git.kernel.org