Bug 2466774 (CVE-2026-43071) - CVE-2026-43071 kernel: dcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to two
Summary: CVE-2026-43071 kernel: dcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to two
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-43071
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-05-05 17:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-06 09:59 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-05 17:01:51 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to two

There is an OOB read problem on dentry_hashtable when user sets
'dhash_entries=1':
  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff888b30b774b0
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
  RIP: 0010:__d_lookup+0x56/0x120
   Call Trace:
    d_lookup.cold+0x16/0x5d
    lookup_dcache+0x27/0xf0
    lookup_one_qstr_excl+0x2a/0x180
    start_dirop+0x55/0xa0
    simple_start_creating+0x8d/0xa0
    debugfs_start_creating+0x8c/0x180
    debugfs_create_dir+0x1d/0x1c0
    pinctrl_init+0x6d/0x140
    do_one_initcall+0x6d/0x3d0
    kernel_init_freeable+0x39f/0x460
    kernel_init+0x2a/0x260

There will be only one bucket in dentry_hashtable when dhash_entries is
set as one, and d_hash_shift is calculated as 32 by dcache_init(). Then,
following process will access more than one buckets(which memory region
is not allocated) in dentry_hashtable:
 d_lookup
  b = d_hash(hash)
    dentry_hashtable + ((u32)hashlen >> d_hash_shift)
    // The C standard defines the behavior of right shift amounts
    // exceeding the bit width of the operand as undefined. The
    // result of '(u32)hashlen >> d_hash_shift' becomes 'hashlen',
    // so 'b' will point to an unallocated memory region.
  hlist_bl_for_each_entry_rcu(b)
   hlist_bl_first_rcu(head)
    h->first  // read OOB!

Fix it by limiting the minimal number of dentry_hashtable bucket to two,
so that 'd_hash_shift' won't exceeds the bit width of type u32.


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