# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98056"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:24:02.919Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:54:18.340Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98056"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98056.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98056"
title: "nvme: remove stale namespaces by NSID range during scan"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvme: remove stale namespaces by NSID range during scan\n\nnvme_scan_ns_list() drops the stale namespaces in each gap in the\nreported NSID list one NSID at a time. Every iteration calls\nnvme_find_get_ns() to look the namespace up and removes it if it is\npresent. The loop runs once per NSID in the gap rather than once per\nnamespace actually present.\n\nNSIDs are 32-bit, so a target with a sparse NSID space can make a\nsingle gap spin the loop billions of times with nothing to remove.\n\n  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#4 stuck for 26s!\n  Workqueue: nvme-wq nvme_scan_work [nvme_core]\n  RIP: 0010:__srcu_read_unlock+0xb/0x20\n  Call Trace:\n   nvme_find_get_ns+0x7d/0xb0 [nvme_core]\n   nvme_scan_ns_list+0xe8/0x280 [nvme_core]\n   nvme_scan_work+0x18a/0x280 [nvme_core]\n   process_one_work+0x197/0x380\n   worker_thread+0x2fe/0x410\n   kthread+0xe0/0x100\n\nRename nvme_remove_invalid_namespaces() to nvme_remove_nsid_range()\nand give it an open (start, end) NSID range. ctrl-\u003enamespaces is\nsorted by NSID, so the whole gap is dropped in a single walk that\nstops once end is reached. This bounds the work by the namespaces\nthat are present instead of by the size of the gap."
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