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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-90312 EUVD-2026-81973GHSA-4gcp-c78x-x35m

bpf: Check load-acquire src ptr type before the load

Published Sep 17, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Check load-acquire src ptr type before the load

check_atomic_load() calls check_load_mem() before atomic_ptr_type_ok().
For a load-acquire that fetches into its own source register (dst_reg ==
src_reg), check_load_mem() overwrites src_reg's type with the type of the
loaded value, so the subsequent atomic_ptr_type_ok() no longer sees the
source pointer and fails to reject the disallowed types (ctx, pkt,
flow_keys, sock).

Since bpf_convert_ctx_accesses() does not rewrite atomic loads, the raw
access to the underlying kernel object is left in place. The destination
type is taken from the ctx access itself, so a load-acquire of the sk
field of struct __sk_buff for example leaves the register typed as
PTR_TO_SOCK_COMMON_OR_NULL, which type_is_sk_pointer() does not match
either, while it actually holds unconverted struct sk_buff bytes. Once
the NULL check has passed this is a type confusion, not just a leak of
kernel data.

Validate src_reg with check_reg_arg() and check the source pointer type
with atomic_ptr_type_ok() before the load again, mirroring
check_atomic_rmw(). Out-of-range register numbers are already rejected
earlier by check_and_resolve_insns() (commit 503d21ef8eac ("bpf: Do
register range validation early")), and the only exemption there,
is_stack_arg_ldx(), requires BPF_LDX | BPF_MEM | BPF_DW and thus never
matches a BPF_ATOMIC insn. atomic_ptr_type_ok() can therefore not
dereference register state out of bounds, that is, the out-of-bounds
read addressed by the Fixes commit below does not reappear (as proven
also via selftest).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.15 6.18.52

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 7.2.6-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux 7.0.0-42.42 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-aws 7.0.0-1016.17 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-azure 7.0.0-1020.21 USN-9019-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 7.0.0-1019.19 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-gcp 7.0.0-1016.18 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-gke 7.0.0-1010.11 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-ibm +1 7.0.0-1017.17 USN-8960-1, USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-nvidia +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-oracle 7.0.0-1015.16 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-raspi 7.0.0-1023.23 USN-9021-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-realtime 7.0.0-43.43.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-riscv 7.0.0-42.42.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws-7.0 7.0.0-1017.18~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-7.0 7.0.0-1019.19~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-7.0 7.0.0-1017.19~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-hwe-7.0 7.0.0-42.42~24.04.1 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle-7.0 7.0.0-1016.18~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +29 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv-7.0 7.0.0-42.42.1~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 +1 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed kernel-source 7.2.7-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11880-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.18.54-121.166 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192
Amazon Linux 2023 perf6.18 +12 1:6.18.54-121.166.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3192

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