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CVE-2026-90401NVD
Vulnerability Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md: remove REQ_NOWAIT support from raid1/10/456
REQ_NOWAIT support in md personalities that can block internally is
fundamentally incomplete. While reads can avoid some blocking paths,
write requests can still encounter cases where one mirror succeeds while
another returns -EAGAIN. At that point md cannot distinguish queue
pressure from a real device failure, so it can neither record a bad
block nor safely retry the write without REQ_NOWAIT, leaving mirrors
with divergent data.
Rather than continue advertising REQ_NOWAIT support for personalities
that cannot implement it correctly, remove it from raid1, raid10 and
raid456. Keep REQ_NOWAIT for linear and raid0, which only remap bios to
their underlying devices; stacked limits will still clear the feature if
any component device lacks REQ_NOWAIT support.
md: remove REQ_NOWAIT support from raid1/10/456
REQ_NOWAIT support in md personalities that can block internally is
fundamentally incomplete. While reads can avoid some blocking paths,
write requests can still encounter cases where one mirror succeeds while
another returns -EAGAIN. At that point md cannot distinguish queue
pressure from a real device failure, so it can neither record a bad
block nor safely retry the write without REQ_NOWAIT, leaving mirrors
with divergent data.
Rather than continue advertising REQ_NOWAIT support for personalities
that cannot implement it correctly, remove it from raid1, raid10 and
raid456. Keep REQ_NOWAIT for linear and raid0, which only remap bios to
their underlying devices; stacked limits will still clear the feature if
any component device lacks REQ_NOWAIT support.
CVSS v3.1 Base Metrics — Score 7.1 (HIGH)
Attack VectorLocal
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh
Affected & Patched Versions
- Linux Linux >= f51d46d0e7cb5b8494aa534d276a9d8915a2443d and < 9bb9504e2d8f3d22ef12d51c333dd499f402dc8f
- Linux Linux >= f51d46d0e7cb5b8494aa534d276a9d8915a2443d and < 3fe5b7c9fb72ccc29bfd0f955b124892af7e3674
- Linux Linux >= 39db562b3fedb93978a7e42dd216b306740959f8
- Linux Linux >= 5.15.111 and < 5.16
- Linux Linux >= 5.17
- Linux Linux 9bb9504e2d8f3d22ef12d51c333dd499f402dc8f
- Linux Linux 3fe5b7c9fb72ccc29bfd0f955b124892af7e3674
- Linux Linux 5.16