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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90206"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:22.173Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:50:26.842Z"
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-2026-90206"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90206.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90206"
title: "nvmet: fix max_qid race between configfs and controller allocation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvmet: fix max_qid race between configfs and controller allocation\n\nThe function nvmet_subsys_attr_qid_max_store() can race against\nnvmet_alloc_ctrl() when a subsystem's max_qid limit is modified.\n\nSuppose max_qid is currently 64. If nvmet_alloc_ctrl() executes:\nctrl-\u003esqs = kzalloc_objs(struct nvmet_sq *, subsys-\u003emax_qid + 1);\nand at this exact point, a userspace process changes max_qid to 128,\nnvmet_subsys_attr_qid_max_store() will set the new max_qid value. It\nattempts to delete active controllers to force a reconnect, but the\nnew controller won't be deleted because it hasn't been added to the\nsubsys-\u003ectrls list yet.\n\nnvmet_alloc_ctrl() then proceeds and adds the new controller to the\nsubsys-\u003ectrls list. Later, when nvmet_install_queue() is called, it\nwill see max_qid set to 128, but the memory allocated for sqs is only\nsized for 64 entries. This results in a KASAN out-of-bounds warning\nand potential memory corruptions.\n\nFix this by protecting the queue allocations and list insertion in\nnvmet_alloc_ctrl() with down_read(&nvmet_config_sem). Because\nnvmet_subsys_attr_qid_max_store() acquires down_write(&nvmet_config_sem)\nto modify the attribute, this safely prevents the configfs writer from\nmodifying max_qid during controller creation.\n\nCopy the max_qid from the subsystem to the controller's structure\nduring the allocation; ctrl-\u003emax_qid never changes as long as the\ncontroller remains in LIVE state, so this will prevent similar race\nconditions."
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