CVE-2026-53059

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

dm log: fix out-of-bounds write due to region_count overflow

The local variable region_count in create_log_context() is declared as

unsigned int (32-bit), but dm_sector_div_up() returns sector_t (64-bit).

When a device-mapper target has a sufficiently large ti->len with a small

region_size, the division result can exceed UINT_MAX. The truncated

value is then used to calculate bitset_size, causing clean_bits,

sync_bits, and recovering_bits to be allocated far smaller than needed

for the actual number of regions.

Subsequent log operations (log_set_bit, log_clear_bit, log_test_bit) use

region indices derived from the full untruncated region space, causing

out-of-bounds writes to kernel heap memory allocated by vmalloc.

This can be reproduced by creating a mirror target whose region_count

overflows 32 bits:

dmsetup create bigzero --table '0 8589934594 zero'

dmsetup create mymirror --table '0 8589934594 mirror \

core 2 2 nosync 2 /dev/mapper/bigzero 0 \

/dev/mapper/bigzero 0'

The status output confirms the truncation (sync_count=1 instead of

4294967297, because 0x100000001 was truncated to 1):

$ dmsetup status mymirror

0 8589934594 mirror 2 254:1 254:1 1/4294967297 ...

This leads to a kernel crash in core_in_sync:

BUG: scheduling while atomic: (udev-worker)/9150/0x00000000

RIP: 0010:core_in_sync+0x14/0x30 [dm_log]

CR2: 0000000000000008

Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!

Fix by widening the local region_count to sector_t and adding an

explicit overflow check before the value is assigned to lc->region_count.