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CVE-2026-74472 (GCVE-0-2026-74472)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 12:27 – Updated: 2026-08-19 16:37
VLAI
Title
ublk: reset kernel-owned dev_info fields in ublk_ctrl_add_dev()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ublk: reset kernel-owned dev_info fields in ublk_ctrl_add_dev() ublk_ctrl_add_dev() memcpy()s the userspace ublksrv_ctrl_dev_info into ub->dev_info and then fixes up the fields the driver owns, but misses ->state and ->ublksrv_pid. A device added with ->state = UBLK_S_DEV_LIVE passes the "->state != UBLK_S_DEV_DEAD" test that ublk_stop_dev_unlocked() uses as its proxy for "a disk is attached", while ->ub_disk is still NULL, so DEL_DEV right after ADD_DEV oopses in del_gendisk(). UBLK_S_DEV_QUIESCED plus UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY dies one step earlier, in ublk_force_abort_dev(). A poisoned ->state also gets START_USER_RECOVERY and the char device read/write path onto a device that was never started, and wedges START_DEV at -EEXIST. A poisoned ->ublksrv_pid just makes GET_DEV_INFO report an unrelated task as the ublk server. Reset both after the memcpy(), as ublk_detach_disk() does. Userspace only ever reads these back, so correcting them silently breaks nothing. ADD_DEV has copied ->state in unsanitized since ublk was merged, but back then it was harmless: the gendisk was allocated during ADD_DEV, and both teardown and the START_DEV -EEXIST check keyed off disk_live() rather than ->state. The oops became reachable once the disk allocation moved to START_DEV and those checks switched to ->state.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 6d9e6dfdf3b207701471f364121c67eefb000682 , < 787c944502e7e63d20a9201bada77e0dd924f458 (git)
Affected: 6d9e6dfdf3b207701471f364121c67eefb000682 , < ee41b00858ca65b4428e99efe39a4277c1f043d2 (git)
Affected: 6d9e6dfdf3b207701471f364121c67eefb000682 , < b67ce16b26ad0f14cfd6071013840aa95f823bea (git)
Affected: 6d9e6dfdf3b207701471f364121c67eefb000682 , < 205feb72e5beb3140e4e1403b6cff30cf739bab9 (git)
Affected: 6d9e6dfdf3b207701471f364121c67eefb000682 , < 127033b79383a3e78361d7e971588aa8849f5124 (git)
Affected: 6d9e6dfdf3b207701471f364121c67eefb000682 , < e65848e4ce352bac9e3465099354c8b8f845391f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.151 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.103 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.44 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.8 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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