Bug 2536578 (CVE-2026-90185) - CVE-2026-90185 kernel: null_blk: serialize configfs attribute stores with the lock
Summary: CVE-2026-90185 kernel: null_blk: serialize configfs attribute stores with the...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90185
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-17 18:30 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-13 13:11 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 18:30:11 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

null_blk: serialize configfs attribute stores with the lock

The NULLB_DEVICE_ATTR _store takes no lock: apply_fn attributes
(submit_queues, poll_queues) get dev->NAME written again after apply_fn
returns, outside its lock; APPLY=NULL attributes are entirely lockless.
configfs only serializes stores per-open-file, so concurrent stores on
separate fds race.

For apply_fn attributes, once one store's apply_fn has reconfigured the
hardware, a second (losing) store can still overwrite dev->NAME
afterwards. This leaves dev->submit_queues out of sync with the live
queue count, which is later caught by the WARN_ON_ONCE() in
null_map_queues().

For !apply_fn attributes, power_store()'s null_add_dev() validates and
builds the device under "lock" but only sets CONFIGURED afterwards. A store
slipping in during this window can change a field mid-setup -- for example,
zone_nr_conv can be pushed above nr_zones after it has already been
clamped, leading to an out-of-bounds dev->zones[] access.

Take "lock" in the macro around the apply_fn call, the CONFIGURED test and
the field write, and move it out of nullb_apply_submit_queues()/
nullb_apply_poll_queues() so both paths are covered once. This serializes
stores with power_store's setup and with each other.


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