CVE-2026-90183 Affecting kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_78-rt package, versions <1-150700.1.3.1
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELLIVEPATCH640150700778RT-20936176
- published14 Oct 2026
- disclosed13 Oct 2026
Introduced: 13 Oct 2026
NewCVE-2026-90183 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_78-rt to version 1-150700.1.3.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_78-rt package and not the kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_78-rt package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-iolatency: clear delay state when freeing policy data
io.latency can throttle a group which has no latency target of its own. When a sibling misses its target, check_scale_change() scales down its peers, and a peer that reaches queue depth one gets blkcg_use_delay() called on it on every further scale-down, even with min_lat_nsec == 0.
iolatency_pd_offline() resets the target through iolatency_set_min_lat_nsec(), which clears the delay only on a nonzero to zero transition, so it never clears such a peer. Freeing the policy data then leaves blkg->use_delay set and blkcg->congestion_count elevated with nothing left that can drop it.
blk_cgroup_congested() then returns true for every task in that cgroup and its descendants for as long as the cgroup lives: page_cache_sync_ra() cuts readahead to a single page, page_cache_async_ra() skips it altogether, and __folio_throttle_swaprate() takes swap_avail_lock and schedules a throttle on anonymous folio allocation.
Clear the delay in iolatency_pd_free(). By then bio-held blkg references have drained, or the queue is frozen for policy deactivation, so check_scale_change() cannot re-arm it. The free callback can also see policy data which was never attached to a blkg, hence the pd->blkg check.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-90183.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1281964
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02f1b90ab33ef99c89dd96a385b432ff57abc64d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8935bf22c0a0db517a7f72f7097300e05dd852f5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c6593422eb3c3a21505436ccf74599a433584c8