Bug 2536738 (CVE-2026-90276) - CVE-2026-90276 kernel: md/md-llbitmap: stop daemon timer rearm on destroy
Summary: CVE-2026-90276 kernel: md/md-llbitmap: stop daemon timer rearm on destroy
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90276
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-17 19:23 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-13 13:45 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 19:23:50 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

md/md-llbitmap: stop daemon timer rearm on destroy

llbitmap_destroy() deletes pending_timer before flushing
md_llbitmap_io_wq. However, daemon_work can still be queued or running
after the timer has been deleted, and the daemon path can arm
pending_timer again when it finds dirty chunks that are not ready to
flush yet.

If that happens during teardown, pending_timer can remain armed after
llbitmap is freed and later dereference freed memory.

Add a BITMAP_SHUTDOWN bit to llbitmap->flags, set it before deleting
the timer, and make the timer and daemon paths stop queueing or rearming
work once teardown starts. Cancel daemon_work before flushing the shared
workqueue so no already queued daemon instance can race with the free.
Use timer_shutdown_sync() so a daemon instance that passed the shutdown
check before teardown cannot rearm the timer afterward.

BITMAP_SHUTDOWN is a runtime-only state. Mask it out when reading and
updating the llbitmap superblock so the shutdown state is never loaded
from disk or persisted to disk.


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