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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90131" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:06:31.913Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:58:29.513Z" 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-2026-90131" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90131.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90131" title: "ntfs: serialize resident iomap reads with mrec_lock" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs: serialize resident iomap reads with mrec_lock\n\nntfs_read_iomap_begin_resident() walks the MFT record through\nntfs_attr_lookup() -\u003e ntfs_attr_find() without taking ni-\u003emrec_lock,\nwhile ntfs_attr_record_resize(), ntfs_make_room_for_attr() and\nntfs_resident_attr_record_add() memmove() the same base_ni-\u003emrec buffer\nunder that lock. map_mft_record() only takes a reference and does not\nserialize, so the reader can observe torn attribute length and offset\nfields while a writer is relocating the records.\n\nKCSAN reports the race between the mmap read fault path and both link()\nand unlink():\n\n BUG: KCSAN: data-race in ntfs_attr_find / ntfs_attr_record_resize\n\n write to 0xffff888100af1018 of 4 bytes by task 96 on cpu 1:\n ntfs_attr_record_resize+0xd2/0x130\n ntfs_attr_record_rm+0xad/0x530\n ntfs_delete+0x224/0x640\n ntfs_unlink+0x14d/0x280\n vfs_unlink+0x157/0x520\n\n read to 0xffff888100af1018 of 4 bytes by task 95 on cpu 0:\n ntfs_attr_find+0x104/0x5b0\n ntfs_attr_lookup+0x39c/0x10c0\n ntfs_read_iomap_begin_resident+0xc6/0x230\n ntfs_read_iomap_begin+0x5d/0xa0\n iomap_iter+0x2e2/0x6e0\n iomap_read_folio+0x147/0x2a0\n ntfs_read_folio+0x108/0x170\n filemap_read_folio+0x35/0x100\n filemap_fault+0x993/0x1000\n\n value changed: 0x00000250 -\u003e 0x000001f0\n\nThe address is mrec + 0x18, i.e. mft_record.bytes_in_use, and the change\nis the 96 bytes of one $FILE_NAME attribute being removed.\n\nKeep base_ni-\u003emrec_lock from the resident read iomap lookup through\niomap_end(). This protects both the attribute walk and the subsequent copy\nfrom iomap-\u003einline_data, which points into the MFT record. The non-resident\npath is left alone: ntfs_lookup() already holds the directory inode's\nmrec_lock when it reads an index folio through read_mapping_folio(), and\ntaking the lock in the shared wrapper deadlocks there with recursive locking\non mrec_lock. The comment above the read_mapping_folio() call in\nfs/ntfs/dir.c notes the same hazard.\n\nThe seek path uses the same lookup helper but does not dereference\niomap-\u003einline_data. Release the lock before returning from that path,\nwhereas the regular read path records base_ni in iomap-\u003eprivate and releases\nthe lock from its iomap_end() callback.\n\nTested with a reproducer that faults in a 16-byte resident file while\nanother thread runs link()/unlink() on it. Before: 40 KCSAN reports in\nabout one second. After: no reports in 180 seconds over 206,090 read\niterations and 423,540 link/unlink cycles. A PROVE_LOCKING build shows no\nlockdep splat with the same reproducer running for 60 seconds." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b041ca562526b3c4a71b41b80ba5e520eac636ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0400e0d50eb3be19c98323faa322b652e4ae3f99"},{"version":"b041ca562526b3c4a71b41b80ba5e520eac636ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9e00c457d4ab8ab59c6e4b8554c921260e4e16c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.1"},{"version":"7.2.6","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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