CVE-2026-90342

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90342
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90342.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-90342
Downstream
Published
2026-09-17T16:08:53Z
Modified
2026-09-18T03:48:37Z
Summary
bpf: Fix mmap_lock deadlock on arena lock failure
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/90xxx/CVE-2026-90342.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b8467290edab4bafae352bf3f317055669a1a458
Fixed
af8087f16714f7620c4db3e732baaa1b2337948f
Fixed
0b10b945479c954393d62ee3229d2f224a4ca91c

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90342.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
7.0.0
Fixed
7.2.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90342.json"