CVE-2026-89499

ring-buffer: Stop remote reader update when page swap fails

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ring-buffer: Stop remote reader update when page swap fails

The remote swap_reader_page callback can return -EBUSY when the writer moves the head before the remote catches it, particularly during an event storm on a small buffer. __rb_get_reader_page_from_remote() currently warns about that failure but continues with the unchanged reader ID and rearranges the local page list as though the swap succeeded.

Handle the callback failure as a recoverable error. Report it with pr_warn_ratelimited() and return NULL. Callers already handle a NULL reader page as a failed attempt. This avoids splicing the same page as both the previous and new reader without flooding the log under contention.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 2e67fabd8b77c4f482df9b211bca1b495c6c2c24 to before a14a97048e48471e283d76879b83d2ae323e0722Affected
  • 2e67fabd8b77c4f482df9b211bca1b495c6c2c24 to before 5eab74874d11160725c42ab676ba97a797a362ebAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 7.1Affected
  • before 7.1Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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