CVE-2026-90211EPSS p8.6%
CVE-2026-90211CVE-2026-90211
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, s390: Clear fetch destination on faulting arena atomic
Same missing register clear as on riscv64. A RMW atomic on an arena pointer
is converted to BPF_PROBE_ATOMIC and gets an exception table entry, but
bpf_jit_probe_atomic_pre() only fills in the arena base and the probe
offset, leaving probe->reg at the -1 that bpf_jit_probe_init() set, which
bpf_jit_probe_post() writes into the entry and ex_handler_bpf() then reads
back as "there is nothing to clear".
That is right for a plain BPF_{ADD,AND,OR,XOR}, which only writes memory,
but an RMW carrying BPF_FETCH also reads the old value into a register:
src_reg for BPF_{ADD,AND,OR,XOR} | BPF_FETCH and BPF_XCHG, and r0 for
BPF_CMPXCHG. So on a fault over an unmapped arena page the program resumes
at the landing pad with whatever that register held before the atomic
instead of the 0 that every other BPF_PROBE_* access delivers.
Fill probe->reg in from bpf_atomic_load_
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.20% probability of exploitation · percentile 8.6% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-21 |