Bug 2536557 (CVE-2026-93073) - CVE-2026-93073 kernel: dax: read holder_ops once in dax_holder_notify_failure()
Summary: CVE-2026-93073 kernel: dax: read holder_ops once in dax_holder_notify_failure()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-93073
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-17 18:23 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-20 11:32 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 18:23:57 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dax: read holder_ops once in dax_holder_notify_failure()

dax_holder_notify_failure() reads dax_dev->holder_ops twice without
READ_ONCE() -- once for the NULL check and once for the indirect
notify_failure() call. A concurrent fs_put_dax() can clear holder_ops
between the two reads, so the check can observe a non-NULL pointer while
the call dereferences NULL. (kill_dax() also clears holder_ops, but only
after synchronize_srcu(), so it cannot race a reader that is inside
dax_read_lock(); fs_put_dax() does no such synchronization.)

Fetch holder_ops once into a local with READ_ONCE() so the NULL check and
the indirect call observe the same value.


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