CVE-2026-72096: dm-verity: make error counter atomic

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-cve-announce
Message-ID <2026081524-CVE-2026-72096-3049@gregkh>
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Description
===========

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

dm-verity: make error counter atomic

The error counter "v->corrupted_errs" was not atomic, thus it could be
subject to race conditions. The call to
dm_audit_log_target("max-corrupted-errors") may be skipped due to the
races.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-72096 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.1 with commit 65ff5b7ddf0541f2b6e5cc59c47bfbf6cbcd91b8 and fixed in 6.6.148 with commit ac99781115d37d10894653b47941d9d8fc26fa64
	Issue introduced in 4.1 with commit 65ff5b7ddf0541f2b6e5cc59c47bfbf6cbcd91b8 and fixed in 6.12.97 with commit 3303e5c6501e3638ded8e9402d703805b00ce64e
	Issue introduced in 4.1 with commit 65ff5b7ddf0541f2b6e5cc59c47bfbf6cbcd91b8 and fixed in 6.18.40 with commit 089e05b644d5aa786c21af467c80b24d691becb1
	Issue introduced in 4.1 with commit 65ff5b7ddf0541f2b6e5cc59c47bfbf6cbcd91b8 and fixed in 7.1.5 with commit 752e214b2c6f15b40b0d873a2ce27733ce0884c6
	Issue introduced in 4.1 with commit 65ff5b7ddf0541f2b6e5cc59c47bfbf6cbcd91b8 and fixed in 7.2-rc3 with commit 8ec4d9c5a5cf4b61fc087f871465b1f79b393325

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-72096
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
	drivers/md/dm-verity.h


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac99781115d37d10894653b47941d9d8fc26fa64
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3303e5c6501e3638ded8e9402d703805b00ce64e
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/089e05b644d5aa786c21af467c80b24d691becb1
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/752e214b2c6f15b40b0d873a2ce27733ce0884c6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ec4d9c5a5cf4b61fc087f871465b1f79b393325
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