CVE-2026-89972 (GCVE-0-2026-89972)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-16 10:32
Modified
2026-10-21 12:49
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme: add missing SRCU grace period in error path nvme_alloc_ns() error path at out_unlink_ns removes ns from the namespace head siblings list with list_del_rcu(&ns->siblings) but does not wait for SRCU readers before freeing the namespace struct. Multipath code iterates the head->list under srcu_read_lock() in nvme_find_path() and nvme_mpath_revalidate_paths(), so a concurrent reader can still hold a reference to ns when kfree(ns) runs. The normal removal path in nvme_ns_remove() correctly calls synchronize_srcu(&ns->head->srcu) after list_del_rcu() to wait for in-progress readers. Add the same grace period in the error path.
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Linux Linux Version: ed754e5deeb17f4e675c84e4b6c640cc7344e498
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Version: ed754e5deeb17f4e675c84e4b6c640cc7344e498
Version: ed754e5deeb17f4e675c84e4b6c640cc7344e498
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