Bug 2532113 (CVE-2026-89557)

Summary: CVE-2026-89557 kernel: md: do overflow check for sb->bblog_shift in super_1_load()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Multiple Device (md) driver. A local attacker with control over a malicious disk image could provide a specially crafted on-disk superblock with an invalid 'bblog_shift' value. This invalid value can lead to an integer overflow when processing bad block information, potentially causing a system crash or data corruption, resulting in a denial of service.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-11 20:44:25 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

md: do overflow check for sb->bblog_shift in super_1_load()

In super_1_load(), sb->bblog_shift is an __u8 type value loaded from on-
disk superblock. It is used for badblocks API badblocks_set() by the
following sequence,

 1930   rdev->badblocks.shift = sb->bblog_shift;
 1931   for (i = 0 ; i < (sectors << (9-3)) ; i++, bbp++) {
 1932           u64 bb = le64_to_cpu(*bbp);
 1933           int count = bb & (0x3ff);
 1934           u64 sector = bb >> 10;
 1935           sector <<= sb->bblog_shift;
 1936           count <<= sb->bblog_shift;
 1937           if (bb + 1 == 0)
 1938                   break;
 1939           if (!badblocks_set(&rdev->badblocks, sector, count, 1))
 1940                   return -EINVAL;
 1941   }

bb->bblog_shit is in range of 0-255, variable sector is 64bit width, for
an invalid bb->bblog_shit, it is possible to make sector be overflowed
by the following calculation,
 1935           sector <<= sb->bblog_shift;
Then in turn when call badblocks_set() at line 1939 with the invalid
rdev->badblocks.shift set at line 1930, may result an overflow inside
_badblocks_clear() in block/badblocks.c.

Although there are many places to call badblocks APIs, the non-zero
shift value is only used in super_1_load(), other places always use 0 as
the shift value. Therefore it is unnecessary to do a general shift value
overflow check inside badblock API, and just check here as the caller.

This may avoid unnecessary check, make the badblocks API code more simple
and elegant.