CVE-2026-98820

Published: October 21, 2026Last modified: October 23, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: set RQF_USE_SCHED when the operation is known The cached requests are allocated for one operation but can be handed out for another. A passthrough command has RQF_USE_SCHED cleared, so using those flags for a subsequent read/write bio will insert it into the scheduler without ->prepare_request() and frees it without ->finish_request(). For kyber, this leaks the domain token acquired at dispatch and stalls the queue. Don't set RQF_USE_SCHED based on the first operation the batch happened to be allocated for. Instead, set it after the request is claimed by an operation. Introduce a helper function, blk_mq_rq_late_init() for this, and absorb blk_mq_rq_time_init() since the two run together.

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References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c47ebc27fa72078e26177cd458cdaf3006a9685
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/790730e4d95de8356a573d4b4864486bba731863
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab6c756f28c741d704a7c3e04814bfc3adf6f818