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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90187"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:09.683Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:50:23.541Z"
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-2026-90187"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90187.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90187"
title: "null_blk: free zones array on device power-off"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnull_blk: free zones array on device power-off\n\nnull_init_zoned_dev() allocates dev-\u003ezones when a zoned device is powered\non, but null_del_dev() never frees it on power-off; dev-\u003ezones is only\nfreed later in null_free_dev(), when the configfs directory is removed. If\nthe device is powered off and then on again, null_init_zoned_dev()\nallocates a new array and overwrites the dev-\u003ezones pointer, leaking the\nprevious allocation each power cycle.\n\nFree dev-\u003ezones in null_del_dev() via null_free_zoned_dev() to solve it.\nAnd calling null_free_zoned_dev() in null_free_dev() is no longer necessary\nbecause every caller already invokes null_del_dev() first: via\nnullb_group_drop_item() before nullb_device_release(), in the\nnull_add_dev() error path of null_create_dev(), and in null_destroy_dev().\nRemove the redundant call.\n\nAnd take &lock around zone_cond_store() in the two store wrappers to\nserialize dev-\u003ezones check-and-deref against its alloc/free, which already\nrun under &lock. The reason there was no problem before is that only\nnullb_device_release() or null_exit() frees the dev-\u003ezones, which\nguarantees that subsequent users won't access the configfs interface."
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