CVE-2026-90420

CVE-2026-90420: vulnerability in Linux

nilfs2: fix infinite loop in nilfs_clean_segments()

Published

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 89% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix infinite loop in nilfs_clean_segments() syzbot reported a hung task in nilfs_transaction_begin(). This occurs because the cleaner ioctl falls into an infinite loop if nilfs_segctor_construct() repeatedly returns -EROFS (e.g. the device is remounted as read-only after an I/O error). Currently in nilfs_clean_segments(), if err is non-zero, it logs the error and sleeps but doesn't abort when it encounters a terminal error like -EROFS. This causes the thread to loop forever. Fix this by breaking out of the loop if nilfs_segctor_construct() returns -EROFS. This matches the behaviour in nilfs_segctor_write_out(), which also handles -EROFS.
Affected products
Linux · Linux
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fc6df85b4954b6fda9c351843aaca3c06f66d8dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/217b967ad7887a3e1ebc08f46f6484e081acd4b4https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bcdbdaac884a4baa59716cf9bd9470c75276e2dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cea0bc78ac64cb88da49c07f80bf2cf9fb7aff8https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c07e5ad6539e7e9350d5c65cbf8adb69d1711b15https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce5a5ad1a8330a2fcfdd9ec2ab341be739e89a18https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7afca8e4efbf4c455b4663c29ae59fde2f1b671https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3e9367dae1a6392cbb14ab0b2ab5edbf39735c3