# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90420"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:09:44.558Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:03:24.266Z"
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-2026-90420"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90420.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90420"
title: "nilfs2: fix infinite loop in nilfs_clean_segments()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnilfs2: fix infinite loop in nilfs_clean_segments()\n\nsyzbot reported a hung task in nilfs_transaction_begin(). This occurs\nbecause the cleaner ioctl falls into an infinite loop if\nnilfs_segctor_construct() repeatedly returns -EROFS (e.g. the device\nis remounted as read-only after an I/O error).\n\nCurrently in nilfs_clean_segments(), if err is non-zero, it logs the\nerror and sleeps but doesn't abort when it encounters a terminal error\nlike -EROFS. This causes the thread to loop forever.\n\nFix this by breaking out of the loop if nilfs_segctor_construct()\nreturns -EROFS. This matches the behaviour in\nnilfs_segctor_write_out(), which also handles -EROFS."
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