Bug 2536659 (CVE-2026-90401) - CVE-2026-90401 kernel: md: remove REQ_NOWAIT support from raid1/10/456
Summary: CVE-2026-90401 kernel: md: remove REQ_NOWAIT support from raid1/10/456
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90401
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-17 19:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-20 11:03 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 19:03:08 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

md: remove REQ_NOWAIT support from raid1/10/456

REQ_NOWAIT support in md personalities that can block internally is
fundamentally incomplete. While reads can avoid some blocking paths,
write requests can still encounter cases where one mirror succeeds while
another returns -EAGAIN. At that point md cannot distinguish queue
pressure from a real device failure, so it can neither record a bad
block nor safely retry the write without REQ_NOWAIT, leaving mirrors
with divergent data.

Rather than continue advertising REQ_NOWAIT support for personalities
that cannot implement it correctly, remove it from raid1, raid10 and
raid456. Keep REQ_NOWAIT for linear and raid0, which only remap bios to
their underlying devices; stacked limits will still clear the feature if
any component device lacks REQ_NOWAIT support.


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