CVE-2026-90342
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-90342, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-09-17
Last updated on: 2026-09-17
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix mmap_lock deadlock on arena lock failure
Reported by the Sashiko AI review.
arena_vm_fault() returns VM_FAULT_RETRY when it can't take
arena->spinlock, but it never took mmap_lock. The fault path assumes a
VM_FAULT_RETRY handler already dropped mmap_lock and re-takes it on the
retry, so mmap_lock gets taken twice and can deadlock:
do_user_addr_fault()
{
fault = handle_mm_fault(...); // calls arena_vm_fault()
if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY)
goto retry; // re-locks mmap_lock
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
}
Return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS instead, for two reasons:
1. We could keep VM_FAULT_RETRY, but then we'd have to drop the fault
lock first and cap the retry ourselves, the way __folio_lock_or_retry()
does.
2. A failed raw_res_spin_lock_irqsave() already means a possible deadlock
was detected, so retrying just hits the same lock again.
So returning VM_FAULT_RETRY here is overkill.
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-UNKNOWN |
