From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>
Subject: CVE-2026-90342: bpf: Fix mmap_lock deadlock on arena lock failure
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:12:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026091702-CVE-2026-90342-d504@gregkh> (raw)
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>
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.
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-90342 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 7.0 with commit b8467290edab4bafae352bf3f317055669a1a458 and fixed in 7.2.6 with commit af8087f16714f7620c4db3e732baaa1b2337948f
Issue introduced in 7.0 with commit b8467290edab4bafae352bf3f317055669a1a458 and fixed in 7.3-rc1 with commit 0b10b945479c954393d62ee3229d2f224a4ca91c
Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.
Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at
https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-90342
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.
Affected files
==============
The file(s) affected by this issue are:
kernel/bpf/arena.c
Mitigation
==========
The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af8087f16714f7620c4db3e732baaa1b2337948f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b10b945479c954393d62ee3229d2f224a4ca91c
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