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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80589" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-26T14:37:43.293Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:26:29.099Z" 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-2026-80589" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80589.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80589" title: "block: stop the timeout timer when releasing a never added disk" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblock: stop the timeout timer when releasing a never added disk\n\ndisk_release() undoes blk_mq_init_allocated_queue() for a disk whose\nprobe failed before add_disk(), but it only calls blk_mq_exit_queue().\nNothing there stops q-\u003etimeout, and that timer rolls forward: it stays\npending until it next expires, not until the last request completes.\nSo if the driver issued any I/O before adding the disk, the\nrequest_queue is freed while still linked into a timer wheel bucket.\n\nCommit 6f8191fdf41d (\"block: simplify disk shutdown\") dropped the\nblk_cleanup_queue() call that used to stop it. __del_gendisk() and\nblk_mq_destroy_queue() still do; only the probe failure path lost it.\n\nnvme gets there because nvme_update_ns_info() submits Report Zones or\nFDP io-mgmt-recv on ns-\u003equeue before the disk is added, so a later\nfailure - a concurrent reset setting NVME_CTRL_FROZEN, or\ndevice_add_disk() failing - lands in put_disk() with the timer armed:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in detach_if_pending+0x30c/0x340\n Write of size 8 at addr ffff888004d71310 by task kworker/u8:2/37\n __timer_delete_sync+0x156/0x240 kernel/time/timer.c:1621\n blk_sync_queue+0x22/0x40 block/blk-core.c:222\n nvme_sync_queues+0x100/0x150 drivers/nvme/host/core.c:5362\n nvme_reset_work+0x138/0x930 drivers/nvme/host/pci.c:3264\n\n Allocated by task 34:\n __blk_mq_alloc_disk+0x33/0x100 block/blk-mq.c:4462\n nvme_alloc_ns+0x290/0x3870 drivers/nvme/host/core.c:4146\n\n Freed by task 0:\n blk_free_queue_rcu+0x3a/0x50 block/blk-core.c:254\n rcu_core+0xc10/0x1730 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2857\n\nThe queue being synced there is ctrl-\u003eadmin_q, only a victim sharing a\ntimer wheel bucket with the freed queue's dangling entry; other runs\ntripped in enqueue_timer(), __run_timers() or blk_mq_timeout_work().\nFailing nvme_alloc_ns() with a debug patch makes it deterministic: one\nleaked timer trips KASAN within seconds, while 1987 patched releases\nproduced no splat.\n\nStop the timer and the queue work items before blk_mq_exit_queue(), like\nblk_mq_destroy_queue() does.\n\nFound by FuzzNvme." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6f8191fdf41d3a53cc1d63fe2234e812c55a0092","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ae7364f68e6c7af6b6df4bbb14040b89e5975d0"},{"version":"6f8191fdf41d3a53cc1d63fe2234e812c55a0092","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f06dbe5012c160e0dba418a5a9cb16c456ad46a"},{"version":"6f8191fdf41d3a53cc1d63fe2234e812c55a0092","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a0ae4d502062a2759f2a92d12bdeab3c64c7372"},{"version":"6f8191fdf41d3a53cc1d63fe2234e812c55a0092","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb03b56d1d754908a37a160603be21769da423cf"},{"version":"6f8191fdf41d3a53cc1d63fe2234e812c55a0092","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"93d620519d71dfc6ee64b5baea74f1d85d4439fb"},{"version":"6f8191fdf41d3a53cc1d63fe2234e812c55a0092","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"26cb8ebbfaf713c82e142d08828d4d765057633b"},{"version":"d27b66257db183fe11c10f31246ae965adb005d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.19.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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