CVE-2026-93196 is a vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Published on September 17, 2026
nvdimm: virtio_pmem: refcount requests for token lifetime
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvdimm: virtio_pmem: refcount requests for token lifetime
KASAN reports slab-use-after-free in __wake_up_common():
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __wake_up_common+0x114/0x160
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810fdcb710 by task swapper/0/0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
6.19.0-next-20260220-00006-g1eae5f204ec3 #4 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux
1.17.0-2-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl+0x6d/0xb0
print_report+0x170/0x4e2
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
? __virt_addr_valid+0x1dc/0x380
kasan_report+0xbc/0xf0
? __wake_up_common+0x114/0x160
? __wake_up_common+0x114/0x160
__wake_up_common+0x114/0x160
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
__wake_up+0x36/0x60
virtio_pmem_host_ack+0x11d/0x3b0
? sched_balance_domains+0x29f/0xb00
? __pfx_virtio_pmem_host_ack+0x10/0x10
? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x98/0x100
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
vring_interrupt+0x1c9/0x5e0
? __pfx_vp_interrupt+0x10/0x10
vp_vring_interrupt+0x87/0x100
? __pfx_vp_interrupt+0x10/0x10
__handle_irq_event_percpu+0x17f/0x550
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10
handle_irq_event+0xab/0x1c0
handle_fasteoi_irq+0x276/0xae0
__common_interrupt+0x65/0x130
common_interrupt+0x78/0xa0
</IRQ>
virtio_pmem_host_ack() wakes a request that has already been freed by the
submitter.
This happens when the request token is still reachable via the virtqueue,
but virtio_pmem_flush() returns and frees it.
Fix the token lifetime by refcounting struct virtio_pmem_request.
virtio_pmem_flush() holds a submitter reference, and the virtqueue holds an
extra reference once the request is queued. The completion path drops the
virtqueue reference, and the submitter drops its reference before
returning.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-93196
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Affected Versions
Linux:- Version 6e84200c0a2994b991259d19450eee561029bf70 and below be072a5d5e35f4bdf2da22f600b5d6dc6c5ff491 is affected.
- Version 6e84200c0a2994b991259d19450eee561029bf70 and below b1e740b9156621afd4c4aa66257f4dde8df1febe is affected.
- Version 6e84200c0a2994b991259d19450eee561029bf70 and below e57140944b5a47a7fd5a142faab29a02af040bc8 is affected.
- Version 5.3 is affected.
- Before 5.3 is unaffected.
- Version 6.18.52, <= 6.18.* is unaffected.
- Version 7.2.6, <= 7.2.* is unaffected.
- Version 7.3-rc1, <= * is unaffected.