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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90184" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:07.728Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:59:21.103Z" 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-2026-90184" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90184.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90184" title: "null_blk: serialize configfs attribute updates with device setup" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnull_blk: serialize configfs attribute updates with device setup\n\nThe attribute store methods generated with NULLB_DEVICE_ATTR() refuse to\nchange the configuration of a live device by testing\nNULLB_DEV_FL_CONFIGURED, but that flag is only set by\nnullb_device_power_store() after null_add_dev() has returned, and the\nstore methods take no lock at all. configfs only serializes writes to\nthe same open file (buffer-\u003emutex), so a write to any attribute can run\nconcurrently with null_add_dev() and change the device configuration\nwhile it is being used.\n\nnull_add_dev() reads the configuration several times, e.g. dev-\u003ezoned is\nread once to set up the queue limits and once to initialize the zone\nresources:\n\n CPU0: echo 1 \u003e nullb0/power CPU1: echo 1 \u003e nullb0/zoned\n nullb_device_power_store()\n mutex_lock(&lock)\n null_add_dev()\n if (dev-\u003ezoned) -\u003e false\n /* no BLK_FEAT_ZONED */ nullb_device_zoned_store()\n test_bit(FL_CONFIGURED) -\u003e 0\n dev-\u003ezoned = true\n blk_mq_alloc_disk()\n /* queue is not zoned */\n if (nullb-\u003edev-\u003ezoned) -\u003e true\n null_register_zoned_dev()\n blk_revalidate_disk_zones()\n\nblk_revalidate_disk_zones() is then called for a queue that does not\nhave BLK_FEAT_ZONED set, which triggers its WARN_ON_ONCE() and fails the\ndevice setup with -EIO:\n\n WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 322 at block/blk-zoned.c:2357 blk_revalidate_disk_zones+0x4c/0x560\n\nClearing dev-\u003ezoned in the same window is worse: the queue is created\nwith BLK_FEAT_ZONED but the zone resources are never initialized, so\nadd_disk() succeeds for a zoned disk that has no zones. And a store that\nlands after the last dev-\u003ezoned test leaves dev-\u003ezoned set while\ndev-\u003ezones is still NULL, which null_process_zoned_cmd() dereferences on\nthe first write.\n\nFix this by taking the global lock, which nullb_device_power_store()\nalready holds across null_add_dev() and null_del_dev(), around both the\nNULLB_DEV_FL_CONFIGURED test and the update of the device configuration.\nThe submit_queues and poll_queues apply callbacks are now called with\nthat lock held, so remove the locking they did themselves.\n\nSince the store methods can run as soon as configfs_register_subsystem()\nreturns, that is, before null_init() gets to mutex_init(&lock), also\ninitialize the lock statically with DEFINE_MUTEX()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3bf2bd20734e3e6ffda53719a9c10fb3ee9c5ffa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6352e7ead2d8111802a554eeb94886f5a9894bb9"},{"version":"3bf2bd20734e3e6ffda53719a9c10fb3ee9c5ffa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7de792b4c48fba02a36a8077032f7d5093c925e5"},{"version":"3bf2bd20734e3e6ffda53719a9c10fb3ee9c5ffa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aed8af338a09a64d63b068a803c4ecfc5701dd4c"},{"version":"3bf2bd20734e3e6ffda53719a9c10fb3ee9c5ffa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"32456a85995579e56c60cc53c357cda75a9d4f7c"},{"version":"3bf2bd20734e3e6ffda53719a9c10fb3ee9c5ffa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d3d35dd045a35991bf6fd13de5f293e6dd7bf3b3"},{"version":"3bf2bd20734e3e6ffda53719a9c10fb3ee9c5ffa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4e1f23f9c33c156be7e313b40695af5a3a834739"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"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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