CVE-2026-90043

Summary

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

zram: fix slot lock bit position on big-endian 64-bit

The slot lock is a bit operation on the whole __lock word, which flags and ac_time alias as two u32s. On little-endian the lock bit lands in the position ZRAM_ENTRY_LOCK reserves in flags, so the aliasing works out. On 64-bit big-endian it lands in ac_time instead: with ZRAM_TRACK_ENTRY_ACTIME enabled, storing the access time from mark_slot_accessed() or slot_free() wipes out the held lock bit, letting another CPU take the same slot lock; an access time value with that bit set makes the slot look locked forever.

Shift the lock bit into the flags half of the word on big-endian 64-bit.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux2e8ff2f51dde73a26b94aed2df4827177bd25e6e < 052b6b2d5fe97547bd2cdb73fa894f6cfea68b11affected
LinuxLinux2e8ff2f51dde73a26b94aed2df4827177bd25e6e < a8b5875741d416703e19ad8eeac6fce8a12bd6e4affected
LinuxLinux7.0affected
LinuxLinux0 < 7.0unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2.5 <= 7.2.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.3-rc1 <= *unaffected

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