CVE-2026-90276 (GCVE-0-2026-90276)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-17 16:08
Modified
2026-10-19 09:00
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/md-llbitmap: stop daemon timer rearm on destroy llbitmap_destroy() deletes pending_timer before flushing md_llbitmap_io_wq. However, daemon_work can still be queued or running after the timer has been deleted, and the daemon path can arm pending_timer again when it finds dirty chunks that are not ready to flush yet. If that happens during teardown, pending_timer can remain armed after llbitmap is freed and later dereference freed memory. Add a BITMAP_SHUTDOWN bit to llbitmap->flags, set it before deleting the timer, and make the timer and daemon paths stop queueing or rearming work once teardown starts. Cancel daemon_work before flushing the shared workqueue so no already queued daemon instance can race with the free. Use timer_shutdown_sync() so a daemon instance that passed the shutdown check before teardown cannot rearm the timer afterward. BITMAP_SHUTDOWN is a runtime-only state. Mask it out when reading and updating the llbitmap superblock so the shutdown state is never loaded from disk or persisted to disk.
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Linux Linux Version: 5ab829f1971dc99f2aac10846c378e67fc875abc
Version: 5ab829f1971dc99f2aac10846c378e67fc875abc
Version: 5ab829f1971dc99f2aac10846c378e67fc875abc
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