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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74392"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:59:05.787Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:18:31.175Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74392"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74392.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74392"
title: "dm: limit target bio polling to one shot"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm: limit target bio polling to one shot\n\ndm_poll_bio() is the -\u003epoll_bio() callback for a stacked dm device.\nThe caller only knows about the dm queue, so it may decide to do a\nspinning poll if it thinks a single queue is being polled. Passing those\nflags unchanged to the mapped clone lets blk_mq_poll() spin on a target\nqueue from inside dm_poll_bio().\n\nWith io_uring IOPOLL on a dm-stripe target this can keep a task in\n\n  dm_poll_bio() -\u003e bio_poll() -\u003e blk_mq_poll()\n\nlong enough to trigger an RCU CPU stall, before io_uring gets back to\nio_iopoll_check() and its need_resched() check.\n\nKeep dm's -\u003epoll_bio() bounded by forcing one-shot polling for target\nbios. The caller can invoke dm_poll_bio() again if it wants to keep\npolling, and it also gets a chance to reap completions or reschedule\nbetween passes."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f22ecf9c14c12918e30f2179ef516e99eb8b2e49","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c4ede3b771adbb3bf21ad4e8b8f2f6f6120c4f7"},{"version":"f22ecf9c14c12918e30f2179ef516e99eb8b2e49","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5aa0f9231cbacade065cedd8e9b5ebd067231171"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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