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dm-pcache: validate seg_id fields from persistent memory

Published Sep 17, 2026

Description

cache_pos_decode(), cache_key_decode() and the last-kset branches of cache_replay(), the writeback worker and the GC worker take a cache segment id from the cache device metadata and index cache->segments[] with it without checking it against cache->n_segs. That metadata is only CRC-protected with a fixed public seed, so whoever supplies the cache device on a table load (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) controls the id; an out-of-range value forms a wild pcache_cache_segment pointer that is dereferenced and written through -- an out-of-bounds read and write driven by on-disk data.

Add cache_seg_id_valid() and reject an out-of-range id at each decode site, failing the operation with -EIO instead of indexing past the array. Bound the id against the initialized-segment count (cache_info.n_segs) rather than the physical device total. A forged cache_info.n_segs below seg_num otherwise leaves segments[cache_info.n_segs..seg_num) as zeroed structs whose data pointer is NULL, so a forged id in that window would still be dereferenced. A later patch guarantees cache_info.n_segs <= seg_num, and a driver-created cache sets the two equal, so valid images are unaffected.

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Linux
Published Sep 17, 2026
Updated Sep 18, 2026
Reserved Sep 17, 2026

CISA Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status Received
Modified Sep 18, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner Linux
Published Sep 17, 2026
Updated Sep 18, 2026

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