CVE-2026-90129 (GCVE-0-2026-90129)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-17 16:06 – Updated: 2026-10-30 12:34
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Title
virtio_balloon: quiesce balloon work before device shutdown
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio_balloon: quiesce balloon work before device shutdown Commit 8bd2fa086a04 ("virtio: break and reset virtio devices on device_shutdown()") added a generic virtio bus .shutdown handler that breaks and resets every virtio device during device_shutdown(), i.e. on reboot and kexec. virtio_balloon provides no .shutdown of its own, so that generic path runs while the balloon's asynchronous work is still armed. Once the device has been broken, virtqueue_add_inbuf() in virtballoon_free_page_report() returns -EIO and trips its WARN_ON_ONCE(). On a kernel booted with panic_on_warn that turns an ordinary reboot, for example a kexec based upgrade, into a fatal panic in the middle of device_shutdown(), so the machine never reaches the new kernel. Relaxing that single WARN_ON_ONCE() would only hide the symptom: the inflate/deflate and OOM paths do not warn, they call wait_event(vb->acked, ...) and would instead block forever on a broken queue that can no longer complete. The device has to be quiesced, not just kept quiet. Add a .shutdown handler that quiesces the balloon via the shared virtballoon_quiesce() helper while the device is still alive, and only then breaks and resets it via virtio_device_shutdown(). Unlike virtballoon_remove() the balloon workqueue is not destroyed, as shutdown does not free the device and cancel_work_sync() together with stop_update already prevent any further work from being queued.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6637 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8bd2fa086a04886798b505f28db4002525895203 , < 6dd28e32f4d81a0d57c732b9900de24184e60a7d (git)
Affected: 8bd2fa086a04886798b505f28db4002525895203 , < bdef50a8226fc04899ef6815dd08a002247d47d5 (git)
Affected: 8bd2fa086a04886798b505f28db4002525895203 , < 7e17eef04600c399c7e0f5ce765da5cf9d40d8e1 (git)
Affected: 0c03e32494dd0bbcc301523e5ae567c2f567a7d9 (git)
Affected: acdfe206be6c70ec55dc8bfdb1a22036d10fae26 (git)
Affected: 1eaa83fd94ed5e40d43139025f5acb7bcfed3b5f (git)
Affected: aee42f3d57bfa37b2716df4584edeecf63b9df4c (git)
Affected: 6.1.191 , < 6.2 (semver)
Affected: 6.6.160 , < 6.7 (semver)
Affected: 6.12.114 , < 6.13 (semver)
Affected: 6.14.9 , < 6.15 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.52 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.6 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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