# CVE-2026-90211: bpf, s390: Clear fetch destination on faulting arena atomic

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.2.6
- Published: 2026-09-17 · Updated: 2026-10-19

## Affected

- Linux: from 2f9469484a3b52c66b799de73bd1ca75617bc8d5, fixed in 44b702fceb4cf3a4ddbfb496f487b034814bf1a3; from 2f9469484a3b52c66b799de73bd1ca75617bc8d5, fixed in cc3e12330599f097f0e1f792435686ddc276f26d
- Linux: 6.11
- Kernel (Linux): from 6.11.0, fixed in 7.2.6

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, s390: Clear fetch destination on faulting arena atomic Same missing register clear as on riscv64. A RMW atomic on an arena pointer is converted to BPF_PROBE_ATOMIC and gets an exception table entry, but bpf_jit_probe_atomic_pre() only fills in the arena base and the probe offset, leaving probe->reg at the -1 that bpf_jit_probe_init() set, which bpf_jit_probe_post() writes into the entry and ex_handler_bpf() then reads back as "there is nothing to clear". That is right for a plain BPF_{ADD,AND,OR,XOR}, which only writes memory, but an RMW carrying BPF_FETCH also reads the old value into a register: src_reg for BPF_{ADD,AND,OR,XOR} | BPF_FETCH and BPF_XCHG, and r0 for BPF_CMPXCHG. So on a fault over an unmapped arena page the program resumes at the landing pad with whatever that register held before the atomic instead of the 0 that every other BPF_PROBE_* access delivers. Fill probe->reg in from bpf_atomic_load_reg(). Unlike x86-64 and arm64, s390x does not report arena violations from its exception handler, so there is no access direction to correct here, only the missing register clear.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44b702fceb4cf3a4ddbfb496f487b034814bf1a3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc3e12330599f097f0e1f792435686ddc276f26d

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