{"id":"CVE-2026-89971","summary":"nvme: skip the zoned limits update if the zone info query failed","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvme: skip the zoned limits update if the zone info query failed\n\nnvme_query_zone_info() returns either a negative errno or a positive\nNVMe status code, but nvme_update_ns_info_block() only tests for the\nnegative case:\n\n\tret = nvme_query_zone_info(ns, lbaf, &zi);\n\tif (ret \u003c 0)\n\t\tgoto out;\n\nIf the device fails the Identify Namespace (I/O Command Set specific)\ncommand, or the Identify Controller command issued by\nnvme_set_max_append(), the positive status falls through and setup\ncontinues with the zero-initialized zone info.  nvme_update_zone_info()\nthen marks the queue zoned with chunk_sectors and ns-\u003ehead-\u003ezsze set to\nzero.\n\nblk_validate_zoned_limits() does not check chunk_sectors, so the limits\ncommit succeeds.  blk_revalidate_disk_zones() does reject the zero zone\nsize, but by then the limits are live and nothing rolls them back, so\nI/O keeps being submitted to a zoned queue with a zero zone size and\ndisk_zone_no() shifts by ilog2(0):\n\n  nvme0n1: Invalid non power of two zone size (0)\n  UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in include/linux/blkdev.h:747:16\n  shift exponent -1 is negative\n   disk_zone_no include/linux/blkdev.h:747 [inline]\n   bio_straddles_zones include/linux/blkdev.h:1058 [inline]\n   blk_zone_wplug_handle_write block/blk-zoned.c:1423 [inline]\n   blk_zone_plug_bio.cold+0x25/0x1c8 block/blk-zoned.c:1605\n   blk_mq_submit_bio+0x18fb/0x2870 block/blk-mq.c:3196\n   submit_bh_wbc+0x575/0x740 fs/buffer.c:2824\n   __block_write_full_folio+0x728/0xdd0 fs/buffer.c:1933\n\nAny device, firmware or NVMe-oF target that fails this one command\nreaches this.\n\nSkip the zoned limits update in that case, and log which of the two\nthings happened: during a revalidation the queue keeps the zone\ngeometry it was last validated with, and on a first scan the namespace\nis registered without zoned limits, so that it is still available as a\nhandle for admin commands.  Neither of the paths in\nnvme_query_zone_info() that return a positive status logs anything, so\nthe failure would otherwise be silent.\n\nzi.zone_size is an exact indicator: every path that returns a positive\nstatus returns before it is assigned, and after that the only failure\nleft is -ENODEV, which the caller already handles.\n\nFound by FuzzNvme.","modified":"2026-09-18T03:48:34.592410106Z","published":"2026-09-16T10:32:50.995Z","database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"Linux","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/89xxx/CVE-2026-89971.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3838e80fcfb32e62baffb63c6dc0a60153665a4d"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fad53ae2052a2b4fc7ca567d6555bdb1176ba35"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb6dafa79040357cf5043836e1db108c2af8b1e1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/89xxx/CVE-2026-89971.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89971"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"c85c9ab926a592e2f59f7d9a6ca7d6562843d8fa"},{"fixed":"7fad53ae2052a2b4fc7ca567d6555bdb1176ba35"},{"fixed":"bb6dafa79040357cf5043836e1db108c2af8b1e1"},{"fixed":"3838e80fcfb32e62baffb63c6dc0a60153665a4d"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89971.json"}},{"package":{"name":"Kernel","ecosystem":"Linux"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.9.0"},{"fixed":"6.18.52"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.19.0"},{"fixed":"7.2.5"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89971.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}