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bpf, s390: Clear fetch destination on faulting arena atomic

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, s390: Clear fetch destination on faulting arena atomic Same missing register clear as on riscv64. A RMW atomic on an arena pointer is converted to BPF_PROBE_ATOMIC and gets an exception table entry, but bpf_jit_probe_atomic_pre() only fills in the arena base and the probe offset, leaving probe->reg at the -1 that bpf_jit_probe_init() set, which bpf_jit_probe_post() writes into the entry and ex_handler_bpf() then reads back as "there is nothing to clear". That is right for a plain BPF_{ADD,AND,OR,XOR}, which only writes memory, but an RMW carrying BPF_FETCH also reads the old value into a register: src_reg for BPF_{ADD,AND,OR,XOR} | BPF_FETCH and BPF_XCHG, and r0 for BPF_CMPXCHG. So on a fault over an unmapped arena page the program resumes at the landing pad with whatever that register held before the atomic instead of the 0 that every other BPF_PROBE_* access delivers. Fill probe->reg in from bpf_atomic_load_reg(). Unlike x86-64 and arm64, s390x does not report arena violations from its exception handler, so there is no access direction to correct here, only the missing register clear.

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CVE-2026-90211

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-90211

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  {
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    "vendor": "Linux",
    "product": "Linux",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2f9469484a3b52c66b799de73bd1ca75617bc8d5",
        "lessThan": "44b702fceb4cf3a4ddbfb496f487b034814bf1a3",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2f9469484a3b52c66b799de73bd1ca75617bc8d5",
        "lessThan": "cc3e12330599f097f0e1f792435686ddc276f26d",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c"
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  },
  {
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "product": "Linux",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "6.11"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "6.11",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "7.2.6",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "7.3",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*"
      }
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c"
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  }
]
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CVE-2026-90211

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