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CVE-2026-93198

dm-pcache: validate the persisted dirty_tail chain at load

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-pcache: validate the persisted dirty_tail chain at load The writeback worker follows the persisted dirty_tail chain, which is decoded from the cache device independently of the key_tail chain that cache_replay() walks and bounds. A crafted image, whose on-media fields are authenticated only by a crc32c with a fixed seed, can aim dirty_tail at a chain of last ksets that never terminates, so cache_writeback_fn() re-arms itself with no delay forever. Walk the dirty_tail chain once at load with the same hop cap cache_replay() uses and fail the table load with -EIO if it does not reach an end within n_segs hops.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0 to < 8195cf3f4a82ef49d9b0651c507ed0784caf23fbaffected
  • 1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0 to < 4822a030929e0e77aa380722dc42e3e4c9edd346affected
  • 1d57628ff95b32d5cfa8d8f50e07690c161e9cf0 to < 58d620ee9e01d4bdbceaf2ae1450d307a2a9d58baffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.18affected
  • 0 to < 6.18unaffected
  • 6.18.52 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.2.6 to ≤ 7.2.*unaffected
  • 7.3 to ≤ *unaffected

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