CVE-2026-90186EPSS p10.8%
CVE-2026-90186CVE-2026-90186
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
null_blk: reject per-device queue resize for shared tag set
When shared_tags is enabled, null_setup_tagset() makes the device use the
global tag_set, whose driver_data stays NULL. null_map_queues() therefore
falls back to the module-wide g_submit_queues/g_poll_queues instead of any
per-device value.
Resizing submit_queues or poll_queues via configfs on such a device calls
blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues() on the shared set, shrinking
set->nr_hw_queues. __blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs() only grows the
q->queue_hw_ctx[] allocation, so on shrink it merely exits and NULLs the
now-excess hctx slots. null_map_queues(), however, keeps mapping CPUs with
the unchanged g_submit_queues/g_poll_queues, so mq_map[] ends up pointing
at those NULLed hctx slots. blk_mq_map_swqueue() then dereferences the NULL
hctx (hctx->cpumask), crashing the kernel:
[ 460.218374] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000098-0x000000000000009f]
[ 460
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.21% probability of exploitation · percentile 10.8% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-17 |