Bug 2528637 (CVE-2026-80862) - CVE-2026-80862 kernel: nvme-tcp: fix usage of page_frag_cache
Summary: CVE-2026-80862 kernel: nvme-tcp: fix usage of page_frag_cache
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-80862
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-09-04 16:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-24 02:18 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-04 16:02:24 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nvme-tcp: fix usage of page_frag_cache

nvme uses page_frag_cache to preallocate PDU for each preallocated request
of block device. Block devices are created in parallel threads,
consequently page_frag_cache is used in not thread-safe manner.
That leads to incorrect refcounting of backstore pages and premature free.

That can be catched by !sendpage_ok inside network stack:

WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 467 at ../net/core/skbuff.c:6931 skb_splice_from_iter+0xfa/0x310.
	tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x782/0xce0
	tcp_sendmsg+0x27/0x40
	sock_sendmsg+0x8b/0xa0
	nvme_tcp_try_send_cmd_pdu+0x149/0x2a0
Then random panic may occur.

Fix that by serializing the usage of page_frag_cache.


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