Bug 2532278 (CVE-2026-89717) - CVE-2026-89717 kernel: zram: NULL pointer dereference due to invalid compressor state
Summary: CVE-2026-89717 kernel: zram: NULL pointer dereference due to invalid compress...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-89717
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-11 22:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-15 04:59 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-11 22:05:03 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

zram: set default primary compressor in zram_destroy_comps()

Patch series "zram: fix zram issues reported by sashiko".

Sashiko drove by and reported [1] a couple of zram issues:
a possible BUG_ON() in zlib code due to missing winbits range
validation and one possible NULL-ptr dereference in zcomp.
Both are low risk yet still worth fixing.


This patch (of 2):

zram_destroy_comps() resets all compressors and leaves them set to NULL,
including the primary one, which is invalid device state, as now
comp_algorithm_show()->strcmp() can be called on a NULL compressor.  Set
default primary compressor in zram_destroy_comps().


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