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"dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:25:14.399Z",
"datePublished": "2026-10-28T10:35:32.734Z",
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwatch_queue: Fix note pool publication race in watch_queue_set_size()\n\nThere is a race between watch_queue_set_size() and post_one_notification().\nwatch_queue_set_size() publishes wqueue->notes, notes_bitmap, nr_pages and\nnr_notes with plain stores, and post_one_notification() reads them with\nplain loads under a different lock, so nothing orders the four stores\nagainst the poster's loads: depending on the build, notes can be stored\nlast (gcc 14 on x86-64 does this). Since keyctl_watch_key() lets a watch\nattach to a queue before it is sized, post_one_notification() can already\nbe running on another CPU at that moment: it reads nr_notes > 0, passes\nits bounds check, and then reads notes while it is still NULL,\ndereferencing notes[0].\n\nAn unprivileged user triggers this reliably by watching one of its own\nkeys through a notification pipe and racing ioctl(IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE)\non that pipe against keyctl(KEYCTL_SETPERM) on the key from another CPU,\ntriggering:\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n RIP: 0010:post_one_notification.isra.0+0xa2/0x1e0\n Call Trace:\n __post_watch_notification+0x148/0x180\n keyctl_setperm_key+0x119/0x130\n do_syscall_64+0x108/0x4c0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt\n\nFix this by publishing nr_notes last with smp_store_release(), and by\nreading it once with smp_load_acquire() in post_one_notification() before\nthe bitmap and the page array are touched. A poster that observes a\nnon-zero nr_notes then also observes the pool behind it; one that observes\nzero drops the notification as before."
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