{"id":"CVE-2026-98056","published":"2026-09-25T11:17:34.547","lastModified":"2026-09-25T15:18:05.140","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvme: remove stale namespaces by NSID range during scan\n\nnvme_scan_ns_list() drops the stale namespaces in each gap in the\nreported NSID list one NSID at a time. Every iteration calls\nnvme_find_get_ns() to look the namespace up and removes it if it is\npresent. The loop runs once per NSID in the gap rather than once per\nnamespace actually present.\n\nNSIDs are 32-bit, so a target with a sparse NSID space can make a\nsingle gap spin the loop billions of times with nothing to remove.\n\n  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#4 stuck for 26s!\n  Workqueue: nvme-wq nvme_scan_work [nvme_core]\n  RIP: 0010:__srcu_read_unlock+0xb/0x20\n  Call Trace:\n   nvme_find_get_ns+0x7d/0xb0 [nvme_core]\n   nvme_scan_ns_list+0xe8/0x280 [nvme_core]\n   nvme_scan_work+0x18a/0x280 [nvme_core]\n   process_one_work+0x197/0x380\n   worker_thread+0x2fe/0x410\n   kthread+0xe0/0x100\n\nRename nvme_remove_invalid_namespaces() to nvme_remove_nsid_range()\nand give it an open (start, end) NSID range. ctrl->namespaces is\nsorted by NSID, so the whole gap is dropped in a single walk that\nstops once end is reached. This bounds the work by the namespaces\nthat are present instead of by the size of the gap.","cvssScore":7.5,"cvssSeverity":"HIGH","cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cwes":[],"vendors":[],"products":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ed7f3d7d435bf5b63da2814dc9270f5ba896011","tags":[]},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52200fc41a79da430ccf7c126ed837535b087ea2","tags":[]},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c84ad7407fb16b92d9b7a649cc304a9cf3757897","tags":[]},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f56b2bb4b18b017b056c4c17c66b2c4c54bf6ee4","tags":[]}],"exploitRefs":[],"hasPoc":false,"ai":null}