CVE-2026-90052 PUBLISHED

dm-integrity: fix buffer overflow with keyed discard

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

dm-integrity: fix buffer overflow with keyed discard

Since commit 68c5c42567bc ("dm-integrity: replace forgeable discard filler with a keyed sector marker"), integrity_metadata computes a checksum for every discarded block into the "checksums" buffer. integrity_sector_checksum always writes the whole digest. So if the tag size is smaller than the digest size, the checksum of the last block that fits into the buffer is written past the end of it. For example, with hmac(sha256) and tag size 16, a 4MiB discard writes 16 bytes past the kmalloc'ed page.

Fix this by subtracting extra_space from the buffer size when computing max_blocks, like we do for writes.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5c58ea19a909ef6bed4f0f824e9cd7e30d7e4775 to 9988c1c9e0d1c78391e3d8e2817beb667470c76f (excl.)
  • affected from 6228722c27304e4682cddc1fede03898f87e4414 to dd08a645195f410f2dcaa40de379a45ce110e873 (excl.)
  • affected from 68c5c42567bc462139128968ebbfadd0aefff519 to 59e6f919d77d72ec79cbf171256f2f7819737580 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.3-rc1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.3-rc1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc2 to * (incl.)

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