Persistent workload throttling via uncleared cgroup delay state
Published Sep 17, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026
Denial of service in Linux 4.19 blk-iolatency allows local users to persistently throttle cgroup workloads via stale delay state. In block/blk-iolatency.c, iolatency_pd_offline() clears delay only when a nonzero latency target becomes zero, leaving delay and congestion accounting set for throttled peers that never had a target. The condition requires sibling latency pressure followed by policy-data teardown; affected cgroups and descendants retain reduced readahead and anonymous-memory allocation throttling for the cgroup's lifetime, without a reported crash.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Linux 4.19 blk-iolatency allows local users to persistently throttle cgroup workloads via stale delay state. In block/blk-iolatency.c, iolatency_pd_offline() clears delay only when a nonzero latency target becomes zero, leaving delay and congestion accounting set for throttled peers that never had a target. The condition requires sibling latency pressure followed by policy-data teardown; affected cgroups and descendants retain reduced readahead and anonymous-memory allocation throttling for the cgroup's lifetime, without a reported crash.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-90183
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- Unavailable
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
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- Sep 17, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 17, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.19
- Affected versionversion=d70675121546c35feaceebf7ed9caed8716640f3 <02f1b90ab33ef99c89dd96a385b432ff57abc64d
- Affected versionversion=d70675121546c35feaceebf7ed9caed8716640f3 <8935bf22c0a0db517a7f72f7097300e05dd852f5
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