NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package, versions *
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- published30 Oct 2026
- disclosed28 Oct 2026
Introduced: 28 Oct 2026
NewCVE-2026-99174 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package and not the openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: free the sbi after a grace period
ext4_get_link() follows a symlink that keeps its target in a data block in rcu pathwalk mode with ext4_getblk(EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CACHED_NOWAIT). That reads s_mount_state in the ASSERT() of ext4_getblk() and again in ext4_es_lookup_extent(), and the lookup bumps the extent status hit or miss counter, all through sb->s_fs_info.
ext4_put_super() destroys those counters, clears sb->s_fs_info and frees the sbi without waiting for a grace period. A pathwalk that is still in ext4_get_link() when the last reference to the mount goes away then dereferences a NULL s_fs_info, the freed sbi or the destroyed percpu counters.
With a pathwalk held up in ext4_get_link() while the last reference goes away:
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000a8-0x00000000000000af] RIP: 0010:ext4_getblk+0xf0/0x640 Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_get_link+0x26c/0x410 pick_link+0xf96/0x1780 step_into_slowpath+0x9b8/0x1250 path_lookupat+0x484/0xb00 filename_lookup+0x1f1/0x5b0 vfs_statx+0xd7/0x3b0 vfs_fstatat+0x4d/0x90 __do_sys_newfstatat+0xa0/0x100 do_syscall_64+0x10e/0x5e0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
So far that has been hard to hit. umount(2) waits for a grace period in namespace_unlock() before it drops the mount, so only a mount whose last reference goes away elsewhere, like the close of a file or a chdir out of a lazily unmounted directory, can race a walker.
Keep sb->s_fs_info and free the sbi together with the extent status counters after a grace period. Split the counters out of ext4_es_unregister_shrinker() for that. The shrinker still gets wasted in ext4_put_super(), the counters go with the sbi.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-99174
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80d5db1686b05fad6f384be017714297d828a714
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87d29b8b849738d52fe820d495fa0aa2d5a1ec82
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c17b44266a1f9fcb49b894d4611d1254bf1aa313
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ce0e27ea610663a9cdc04e3bca38559147428d4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4b0598fad51a978fcbda9d55eef6b5bd3cbe7d8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf3bd5824c985b350d150bcd76698ee5e993fcba