CVE-2026-90275

md/raid1: don't set array_frozen in raid1_takeover()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

md/raid1: don't set array_frozen in raid1_takeover()

raid1_takeover() sets conf->array_frozen = 1 on the newly-allocated r1conf and nothing ever clears it, so every I/O to the array stalls permanently once _wait_barrier() sees it stuck at 1.

This used to be harmless: level_store() called mddev_resume() right after pers->run(), which called raid1_quiesce(mddev, 0) and cleared array_frozen back to 0 regardless of what raid1_takeover() set. Commit b39f35ebe86d ("md: don't quiesce in mddev_suspend()") removed that quiesce(mddev, 0) call, so the pre-set now sticks.

setup_conf() already zero-initializes the new r1conf via kzalloc, so just don't set array_frozen here.

Same class of bug as commit 892da88d1cd9 ("md/raid10: fix a 'conf->barrier' leakage in raid10_takeover()"), also triggered by b39f35ebe86d.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • b39f35ebe86d88788d85f61e83c81c308cb76727 to before 668d99ba47210ab6ceb18f1cf022c0accca7e3bbAffected
  • b39f35ebe86d88788d85f61e83c81c308cb76727 to before c57ec2749ee03cace564eec7bb37c89dc3d8d47bAffected
  • b39f35ebe86d88788d85f61e83c81c308cb76727 to before f9cdb5bb8efbf401e84d850828271af87e6be2dcAffected
  • b39f35ebe86d88788d85f61e83c81c308cb76727 to before b6ec4bf1ec4446c0213c08ea493e48e6b83cd1afAffected
  • b39f35ebe86d88788d85f61e83c81c308cb76727 to before dc386aa0ac0a3ec06c9a3ea9b064b073fb72a916Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.6Affected
  • before 6.6Not affected
  • 6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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