Bug 2532059 (CVE-2026-89515) - CVE-2026-89515 kernel: scsi: core: Fill in DMA padding bytes in scsi_alloc_sgtables()
Summary: CVE-2026-89515 kernel: scsi: core: Fill in DMA padding bytes in scsi_alloc_sg...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-89515
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-09-11 20:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-14 18:15 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-11 20:22:52 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: core: Fill in DMA padding bytes in scsi_alloc_sgtables()

During fuzz testing, the following issue was discovered:

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __dma_map_sg_attrs+0x217/0x310
 __dma_map_sg_attrs+0x217/0x310
 dma_map_sg_attrs+0x4a/0x70
 ata_qc_issue+0x9f8/0x1420
 __ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x1657/0x1740
 ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x79a/0x920
 scsi_queue_rq+0x4472/0x4f40
 blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x1cca/0x3ee0
 __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x458/0x630
 blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x15b/0x340
 __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0xe5/0x250
 __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x138/0x780
 blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x4bb/0x7e0
 blk_mq_sched_insert_request+0x2a7/0x4c0
 blk_execute_rq+0x497/0x8a0
 sg_io+0xbe0/0xe20
 scsi_ioctl+0x2b36/0x3c60
 sr_block_ioctl+0x319/0x440
 blkdev_ioctl+0x80f/0xd70
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x219/0x420
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xe0
 x64_sys_call+0x1d6c/0x3ad0
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

Uninit was created at:
 __alloc_pages+0x5c0/0xc80
 alloc_pages+0xe0e/0x1050
 blk_rq_map_user_iov+0x2b77/0x6100
 blk_rq_map_user_io+0x2fa/0x4d0
 sg_io+0xad6/0xe20
 scsi_ioctl+0x2b36/0x3c60
 sr_block_ioctl+0x319/0x440
 blkdev_ioctl+0x80f/0xd70
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x219/0x420
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xe0
 x64_sys_call+0x1d6c/0x3ad0
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

Bytes 14-15 of 16 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 16 starts at ffff88800cbdb000

When processing the last unaligned element of the scatterlist, it is
supplemented with missing bytes in the amount of pad_len.  These bytes
remain uninitialized, which leads to a problem.

Extend last_sg->length by pad_len first, then use sg_zero_buffer() to
zero those pad_len bytes.  sg_zero_buffer() uses sg_miter internally,
which correctly handles sg entries spanning multiple pages and padding
that crosses a page boundary.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.


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