High [CVE-2026-53062] dm cache policy smq: fix missing locks in invalidating cache blocks
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-53062 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm cache policy smq: fix missing locks in invalidating cache blocks In passthrough mode, the policy invalidate_mapping operation is called simultaneously from multiple workers, thus it should be protected by a lock.
Otherwise, we might end up with data races on the allocated blocks counter, or even use-after-free issues with internal data structures when doing concurrent writes.
Note that the existing FIXME in smq_invalidate_mapping() doesn't affect passthrough mode since migration tasks don't exist there, but would need attention if supporting fast device shrinking via suspend/resume without target reloading. Reproduce steps: 1.
Create a cache device consisting of 1024 cache entries dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0" dmsetup create cdata --table "0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192" dmsetup create corig --table "0 262144 linear /dev/sdc 262144" dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct dmsetup create cache --table "0 262144 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \ /dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0" 2.
Populate the cache, and record the number of cached blocks fio --name=populate --filename=/dev/mapper/cache --rw=randwrite --bs=4k \ --size=64m --direct=1 nr_cached=$(dmsetup status cache | awk '{split($7, a, "/"); print a[1]}') 3.
Is CVE-2026-53062 exploited?
No exploitation is reported in the sources VulniPulse tracks: CVE-2026-53062 is not in the CISA KEV catalog (checked ) and this advisory does not report exploitation. That is not proof the vulnerability cannot be exploited.
How do I fix CVE-2026-53062?
Upgrade to a fixed release named by Red Hat:
- kernel-0:6.12.0-211.58.1.el10_2
- kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.166.1.rt7.507.el8_10
- kernel-0:4.18.0-553.166.1.el8_10
- kernel-0:4.18.0-372.220.1.el8_6
- kernel-0:4.18.0-477.175.1.el8_8
- kernel-0:5.14.0-687.50.1.el9_8
- RHSA-2026:70498
- RHSA-2026:70403
- RHSA-2026:70402
- RHSA-2026:77216
- RHSA-2026:84793
- RHSA-2026:70459
Confirm against the vendor advisory before you patch.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative. Check it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 14 days ago·verify at source
- kernel-0:6.12.0-211.58.1.el10_2
- kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.166.1.rt7.507.el8_10
- kernel-0:4.18.0-553.166.1.el8_10
- kernel-0:4.18.0-372.220.1.el8_6
- kernel-0:4.18.0-477.175.1.el8_8
- kernel-0:5.14.0-687.50.1.el9_8
- RHSA-2026:70498
- RHSA-2026:70403
- RHSA-2026:70402
- RHSA-2026:77216
- RHSA-2026:84793
- RHSA-2026:70459
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 14 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: kernel-0:6.12.0-211.58.1.el10_2, kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.166.1.rt7.507.el8_10, kernel-0:4.18.0-553.166.1.el8_10, kernel-0:4.18.0-372.220.1.el8_6, kernel-0:4.18.0-477.175.1.el8_8, kernel-0:5.14.0-687.50.1.el9_8. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here. Review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 14 days ago·verify at source
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