Bug 2536202 (CVE-2026-90081) - CVE-2026-90081 kernel: net/rds: use wq_has_sleeper() in rds_cong_map_updated()
Summary: CVE-2026-90081 kernel: net/rds: use wq_has_sleeper() in rds_cong_map_updated()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90081
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-17 16:47 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-13 12:29 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 16:47:58 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/rds: use wq_has_sleeper() in rds_cong_map_updated()

rds_cong_map_updated() runs after a peer's congestion map has been
rewritten (by rds_tcp_cong_recv() and rds_ib_cong_recv(), or the
clear-all in the loopback and IB send-completion paths).  It bumps
rds_cong_generation and then checks waitqueue_active() on
map->m_waitq and on rds_poll_waitq to decide whether anyone needs
waking.  atomic_inc() carries no ordering and waitqueue_active() is a
plain load, so nothing orders the map and generation stores before
the wait queue reads.  The waiters do the mirror image: rds_cong_wait()
adds itself to m_waitq and then tests the port bit, and rds_poll()
registers on rds_poll_waitq and then reads the generation.  That is
the store-buffering pattern described above waitqueue_active() in
include/linux/wait.h - the updater can observe an empty wait queue
while the waiter still observes the port as congested, and no wake-up
is issued.

rds_cong_wait() is an interruptible sleep with no timeout, so a
sender blocked on a congested port stays blocked until the next
congestion update from that peer arrives or a signal is delivered.
A poll() waiter misses the map-updated notification the same way.

Use wq_has_sleeper(), which is waitqueue_active() preceded by the
required full barrier, as rds_tcp_state_change() already does for
the same pattern.


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