CVE-2026-90342

CVE-2026-90342

published September 17, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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 record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00198 · 9.0th percentile
Published
2026-09-17T21:17Z
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 SEP 03:55Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 17 SEP 16:08Z
    bpf: Fix mmap_lock deadlock on arena lock failure
    cvelistv5