CVE-2026-89953 PUBLISHED

mtd: mtdoops: free page bitmap when the backing MTD is removed

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 16.09.2026 Updated: 16.09.2026

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

mtd: mtdoops: free page bitmap when the backing MTD is removed

mtdoops_notify_add() allocates oops_page_used when the configured MTD device is registered. mtdoops_notify_remove() detaches from that device but leaves the bitmap allocated. If the same MTD device is later registered again, the add path allocates a new bitmap and overwrites the old pointer, leaking one vmalloc allocation per remove/add cycle.

This is only visible when the backing MTD device can disappear and be registered again while mtdoops remains loaded, so the usual static MTD case does not expose it.

Free the bitmap after unregistering the dumper and flushing the pending workers, then clear the pointer and page count before a later attach can allocate fresh state. Clearing the pointer also keeps the module exit path from freeing the same bitmap a second time after a remove event.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from be95745f01677245a061a8f51473ef5ec8ad008e to 477d61d54e097e90f748aa18d013805abd56bcbd (excl.)
  • affected from be95745f01677245a061a8f51473ef5ec8ad008e to a91ac71e67c3e01ed9afd9841435bebb930293f8 (excl.)
  • affected from be95745f01677245a061a8f51473ef5ec8ad008e to 698944132083d143ef965c0090ee14ba1d9e1a5f (excl.)
  • affected from be95745f01677245a061a8f51473ef5ec8ad008e to f25c804947e0a28c15e73da8e2e0db959cbed716 (excl.)
  • affected from be95745f01677245a061a8f51473ef5ec8ad008e to 8414f0e9f707226de20b48c7048179fd86d352fc (excl.)
  • affected from be95745f01677245a061a8f51473ef5ec8ad008e to d06f91a52af11630c9f7e487f6daf242ac310cb8 (excl.)
  • affected from be95745f01677245a061a8f51473ef5ec8ad008e to 1e5cd8bc902331ff801df88cbb299029ae062753 (excl.)
  • affected from be95745f01677245a061a8f51473ef5ec8ad008e to 956e7da12c114f13c63d126ab1d79c3b6a819060 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.33 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.33 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.270 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.221 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.51 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.5 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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