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        "cveId": "CVE-2026-90129",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-09-11T19:38:34.788Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-09-17T16:06:30.537Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-21T12:49:59.230Z"
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirtio_balloon: quiesce balloon work before device shutdown\n\nCommit 8bd2fa086a04 (\"virtio: break and reset virtio devices on\ndevice_shutdown()\") added a generic virtio bus .shutdown handler that\nbreaks and resets every virtio device during device_shutdown(), i.e. on\nreboot and kexec.\n\nvirtio_balloon provides no .shutdown of its own, so that generic path\nruns while the balloon's asynchronous work is still armed. Once the\ndevice has been broken, virtqueue_add_inbuf() in\nvirtballoon_free_page_report() returns -EIO and trips its\nWARN_ON_ONCE(). On a kernel booted with panic_on_warn that turns an\nordinary reboot, for example a kexec based upgrade, into a fatal panic\nin the middle of device_shutdown(), so the machine never reaches the\nnew kernel.\n\nRelaxing that single WARN_ON_ONCE() would only hide the symptom: the\ninflate/deflate and OOM paths do not warn, they call\nwait_event(vb->acked, ...) and would instead block forever on a broken\nqueue that can no longer complete. The device has to be quiesced, not\njust kept quiet.\n\nAdd a .shutdown handler that quiesces the balloon via the shared\nvirtballoon_quiesce() helper while the device is still alive, and only\nthen breaks and resets it via virtio_device_shutdown(). Unlike\nvirtballoon_remove() the balloon workqueue is not destroyed, as shutdown\ndoes not free the device and cancel_work_sync() together with stop_update\nalready prevent any further work from being queued."
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