CVE-2026-90186

{"dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": {"cveId": "CVE-2026-90186", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-09-11T19:38:34.791Z", "datePublished": "2026-09-17T16:07:09.047Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T08:59:23.057Z"}, "containers": {"cna": {"providerMetadata": {"orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T08:59:23.057Z"}, "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnull_blk: reject per-device queue resize for shared tag set\n\nWhen shared_tags is enabled, null_setup_tagset() makes the device use the\nglobal tag_set, whose driver_data stays NULL. null_map_queues() therefore\nfalls back to the module-wide g_submit_queues/g_poll_queues instead of any\nper-device value.\n\nResizing submit_queues or poll_queues via configfs on such a device calls\nblk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues() on the shared set, shrinking\nset->nr_hw_queues. __blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs() only grows the\nq->queue_hw_ctx[] allocation, so on shrink it merely exits and NULLs the\nnow-excess hctx slots. null_map_queues(), however, keeps mapping CPUs with\nthe unchanged g_submit_queues/g_poll_queues, so mq_map[] ends up pointing\nat those NULLed hctx slots. blk_mq_map_swqueue() then dereferences the NULL\nhctx (hctx->cpumask), crashing the kernel:\n\n[ 460.218374] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000098-0x000000000000009f]\n[ 460.219003] CPU: 24 UID: 0 PID: 1492 Comm: sh Not tainted 7.2.0-rc2+ #67 PREEMPT(full)\n[ 460.219792] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-4.fc41 04/01/2014\n[ 460.220452] RIP: 0010:blk_mq_map_swqueue+0x4db/0x1430\n......\n[ 460.228977] Call Trace:\n[ 460.229175] <TASK>\n[ 460.229354] blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0xd49/0x11c0\n[ 460.229779] ? __pfx_blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0x10/0x10\n[ 460.230200] nullb_update_nr_hw_queues+0x1a9/0x370 [null_blk]\n[ 460.230694] nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0xd9/0x170 [null_blk]\n[ 460.231190] ? __pfx_nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0x10/0x10 [null_blk]\n[ 460.231776] ? configfs_write_iter+0x35c/0x4e0\n[ 460.232122] configfs_write_iter+0x286/0x4e0\n[ 460.232460] vfs_write+0x52d/0xd00\n[ 460.232779] ? __x64_sys_openat+0x108/0x1d0\n[ 460.233106] ? __pfx_vfs_write+0x10/0x10\n[ 460.233413] ? fdget_pos+0x1cf/0x4c0\n[ 460.233745] ? fput_close+0x133/0x190\n[ 460.234038] ? __pfx_expand_files+0x10/0x10\n[ 460.234368] ksys_write+0xfc/0x1d0\n\nReproducer:\nmodprobe null_blk shared_tags=1 submit_queues=64 poll_queues=1\nmkdir /sys/kernel/config/nullb/dev\necho 1 > /sys/kernel/config/nullb/dev/power\necho 1 > /sys/kernel/config/nullb/dev/submit_queues\n\nA per-device resize of a shared tag set is meaningless anyway, so reject it\nwith -EINVAL in nullb_update_nr_hw_queues() when the device is bound to the\nglobal tag_set."}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/block/null_blk/main.c"], "versions": [{"version": "45919fbfe1c487c17ea1d198534339a5e8abeae3", "lessThan": "9c7bae099ddc92676ad1b7e29dd6c089e5f6196c", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "45919fbfe1c487c17ea1d198534339a5e8abeae3", "lessThan": "fcd53f3e8b758c79c3f2420d28a2a1dce6fda61a", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "45919fbfe1c487c17ea1d198534339a5e8abeae3", "lessThan": "f609f7bf9ce8c2fc427705c4a9f623a281239d06", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "45919fbfe1c487c17ea1d198534339a5e8abeae3", "lessThan": "3e35ad503386a2e8a0e0460530dcbf421c79f6f2", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "45919fbfe1c487c17ea1d198534339a5e8abeae3", "lessThan": "baff300541a0012907cdde349728739fe16176d7", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "45919fbfe1c487c17ea1d198534339a5e8abeae3", "lessThan": "1cdfe2fa62b48728a9b436fbbd3dbe4c11593e24", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/block/null_blk/main.c"], "versions": [{"version": "5.5", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "5.5", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.1.188", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.6.157", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.12.110", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.18.52", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.2.6", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.1.188"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.157"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.110"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.5", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.52"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.5", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.6"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.5", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c7bae099ddc92676ad1b7e29dd6c089e5f6196c"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcd53f3e8b758c79c3f2420d28a2a1dce6fda61a"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f609f7bf9ce8c2fc427705c4a9f623a281239d06"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e35ad503386a2e8a0e0460530dcbf421c79f6f2"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/baff300541a0012907cdde349728739fe16176d7"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cdfe2fa62b48728a9b436fbbd3dbe4c11593e24"}], "title": "null_blk: reject per-device queue resize for shared tag set", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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__pfx_blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0x10/0x10\n[ 460.230200] nullb_update_nr_hw_queues+0x1a9/0x370 [null_blk]\n[ 460.230694] nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0xd9/0x170 [null_blk]\n[ 460.231190] ? __pfx_nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0x10/0x10 [null_blk]\n[ 460.231776] ? configfs_write_iter+0x35c/0x4e0\n[ 460.232122] configfs_write_iter+0x286/0x4e0\n[ 460.232460] vfs_write+0x52d/0xd00\n[ 460.232779] ? __x64_sys_openat+0x108/0x1d0\n[ 460.233106] ? __pfx_vfs_write+0x10/0x10\n[ 460.233413] ? fdget_pos+0x1cf/0x4c0\n[ 460.233745] ? fput_close+0x133/0x190\n[ 460.234038] ? __pfx_expand_files+0x10/0x10\n[ 460.234368] ksys_write+0xfc/0x1d0\n\nReproducer:\nmodprobe null_blk shared_tags=1 submit_queues=64 poll_queues=1\nmkdir /sys/kernel/config/nullb/dev\necho 1 > /sys/kernel/config/nullb/dev/power\necho 1 > /sys/kernel/config/nullb/dev/submit_queues\n\nA per-device resize of a shared tag set is meaningless anyway, so reject it\nwith -EINVAL in nullb_update_nr_hw_queues() when the device is bound to the\nglobal tag_set."}], "id": "CVE-2026-90186", "lastModified": "2026-10-19T09:19:08.603", "metrics": {}, "published": "2026-09-17T17:17:13.127", "references": [{"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cdfe2fa62b48728a9b436fbbd3dbe4c11593e24"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e35ad503386a2e8a0e0460530dcbf421c79f6f2"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c7bae099ddc92676ad1b7e29dd6c089e5f6196c"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/baff300541a0012907cdde349728739fe16176d7"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f609f7bf9ce8c2fc427705c4a9f623a281239d06"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcd53f3e8b758c79c3f2420d28a2a1dce6fda61a"}], "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "vulnStatus": "Received"}

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