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Linux EUVDEUVD-2026-82003

| CVE-2026-90342
2026-09-17 Linux GHSA-xw74-j5c3-43ch

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Sep 17, 2026 - 17:19 EUVD
CVE Published
Sep 17, 2026 - 16:08 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

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.

  1. 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.

Analysis

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. …

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