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        "cveId": "CVE-2026-90325",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-09-11T19:38:34.802Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-09-17T16:08:40.710Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T09:01:42.317Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblk-cgroup: skip dying blkg in blkcg_activate_policy()\n\nWhen switching IO schedulers on a block device, blkcg_activate_policy()\ncan race with concurrent blkcg deletion, leading to a use-after-free in\nrcu_accelerate_cbs.\n\nT1:                               T2:\n                                  blkg_destroy\n                                  kill(&blkg->refcnt) // blkg->refcnt=1->0\n                                  blkg_release // call_rcu(__blkg_release)\n                                  ...\n                                  blkg_free_workfn\n                                  ->pd_free_fn(pd)\nelv_iosched_store\nelevator_switch\n...\niterate blkg list\nblkg_get(blkg) // blkg->refcnt=0->1\n                                  list_del_init(&blkg->q_node)\nblkg_put(pinned_blkg) // blkg->refcnt=1->0\nblkg_release // call_rcu again\nrcu_accelerate_cbs // uaf\n\nFix this by checking hlist_unhashed(&blkg->blkcg_node) before getting\na reference to the blkg. This is the same check used in blkg_destroy()\nto detect if a blkg has already been destroyed. If the blkg is already\nunhashed, skip processing it since it's being destroyed."
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                        "version": "3.1",
                        "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                        "baseScore": 7.8,
                        "baseSeverity": "HIGH"
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                            "value": "AV:L - The UAF is reached by writing the local sysfs file /sys/block/<dev>/queue/scheduler (elv_iosched_store → elevator_switch → bfq_create_group_hierarchy → blkcg_activate_policy) or by writing the local cgroup files io.max (tg_set_limit → blk_throtl_init) or io.latency (iolatency_set_limit → blk_iolatency_init). No remote protocol carries the triggering state.\nAC:L - The attacker drives both sides: one thread writes io.max/io.latency or queue/scheduler so blkcg_activate_policy() takes the GFP_NOWAIT-fail retry and calls blkg_get() on a q->blkg_list entry, while another rmdirs a sibling io cgroup so blkcg_css_offline() → blkg_destroy() kills that blkg's percpu_ref. The mkdir/write/rmdir cycle can be repeated until the window hits.\nPR:L - cgroup_add_file() creates io.max and io.latency with mode 0644 and current_fsuid(), so an unprivileged user who mkdir's in a delegated cgroup v2 subtree (systemd user@.service, rootless containers) can write those files and rmdir the cgroup. tg_set_limit()/iolatency_set_limit() have no capability check, and blkg_conf_open_bdev() looks up the disk by MAJ:MIN via blkdev_get_no_open() without opening it.\nUI:N - The attacker performs the mkdir, the io.max/io.latency or scheduler write that enters blkcg_activate_policy(), and the concurrent rmdir that runs blkg_destroy(), all from its own processes; no other user must mount a device or open a file.\nS:U - Double call_rcu on blkg->rcu_head corrupts host-kernel RCU callback lists and the slab-backed blkcg_gq. That stays inside the same kernel security authority and is not a VM, IOMMU, or hypervisor escape.\nC:H - blkcg_activate_policy() calls blkg_get() (percpu_ref_get, not tryget) on a blkg whose refcnt blkg_destroy() already killed, resurrecting it; the matching blkg_put() after mutex_unlock races blkg_free_workfn()'s kfree(blkg) and issues a second call_rcu on the same rcu_head, which the report shows as a UAF in rcu_accelerate_cbs. A UAF on the RCU list and blkcg_gq is an arbitrary kernel-memory read.\nI:H - The second call_rcu(&blkg->rcu_head) from the resurrected blkg_put() corrupts the RCU callback list (rcu_accelerate_cbs) while blkg_free_workfn() still does list_del_init() and pd_free_fn() on that object. Those writes through a freed, sprayable blkcg_gq are a kernel write primitive suitable for control-flow hijack.\nA:H - The commit documents a use-after-free in rcu_accelerate_cbs from the second call_rcu on blkg->rcu_head after blkg_get() resurrects a killed ref; that UAF oopses or panics the kernel even if it is not further exploited."
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