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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89971" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:32:50.995Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:55:46.135Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-89971" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89971.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89971" title: "nvme: skip the zoned limits update if the zone info query failed" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvme: skip the zoned limits update if the zone info query failed\n\nnvme_query_zone_info() returns either a negative errno or a positive\nNVMe status code, but nvme_update_ns_info_block() only tests for the\nnegative case:\n\n\tret = nvme_query_zone_info(ns, lbaf, &zi);\n\tif (ret \u003c 0)\n\t\tgoto out;\n\nIf the device fails the Identify Namespace (I/O Command Set specific)\ncommand, or the Identify Controller command issued by\nnvme_set_max_append(), the positive status falls through and setup\ncontinues with the zero-initialized zone info. nvme_update_zone_info()\nthen marks the queue zoned with chunk_sectors and ns-\u003ehead-\u003ezsze set to\nzero.\n\nblk_validate_zoned_limits() does not check chunk_sectors, so the limits\ncommit succeeds. blk_revalidate_disk_zones() does reject the zero zone\nsize, but by then the limits are live and nothing rolls them back, so\nI/O keeps being submitted to a zoned queue with a zero zone size and\ndisk_zone_no() shifts by ilog2(0):\n\n nvme0n1: Invalid non power of two zone size (0)\n UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in include/linux/blkdev.h:747:16\n shift exponent -1 is negative\n disk_zone_no include/linux/blkdev.h:747 [inline]\n bio_straddles_zones include/linux/blkdev.h:1058 [inline]\n blk_zone_wplug_handle_write block/blk-zoned.c:1423 [inline]\n blk_zone_plug_bio.cold+0x25/0x1c8 block/blk-zoned.c:1605\n blk_mq_submit_bio+0x18fb/0x2870 block/blk-mq.c:3196\n submit_bh_wbc+0x575/0x740 fs/buffer.c:2824\n __block_write_full_folio+0x728/0xdd0 fs/buffer.c:1933\n\nAny device, firmware or NVMe-oF target that fails this one command\nreaches this.\n\nSkip the zoned limits update in that case, and log which of the two\nthings happened: during a revalidation the queue keeps the zone\ngeometry it was last validated with, and on a first scan the namespace\nis registered without zoned limits, so that it is still available as a\nhandle for admin commands. Neither of the paths in\nnvme_query_zone_info() that return a positive status logs anything, so\nthe failure would otherwise be silent.\n\nzi.zone_size is an exact indicator: every path that returns a positive\nstatus returns before it is assigned, and after that the only failure\nleft is -ENODEV, which the caller already handles.\n\nFound by FuzzNvme." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c85c9ab926a592e2f59f7d9a6ca7d6562843d8fa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a75258e651d91ec25424cd94d824d192c11ccc24"},{"version":"c85c9ab926a592e2f59f7d9a6ca7d6562843d8fa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7fad53ae2052a2b4fc7ca567d6555bdb1176ba35"},{"version":"c85c9ab926a592e2f59f7d9a6ca7d6562843d8fa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb6dafa79040357cf5043836e1db108c2af8b1e1"},{"version":"c85c9ab926a592e2f59f7d9a6ca7d6562843d8fa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3838e80fcfb32e62baffb63c6dc0a60153665a4d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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