CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43115
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
srcu: Use irq_work to start GP in tiny SRCU
Tiny SRCU's srcu_gp_start_if_needed() directly calls schedule_work(),
which acquires the workqueue pool->lock.
This causes a lockdep splat when call_srcu() is called with a scheduler
lock held, due to:
call_srcu() [holding pi_lock]
srcu_gp_start_if_needed()
schedule_work() -> pool->lock
workqueue_init() / create_worker() [holding pool->lock]
wake_up_process() -> try_to_wake_up() -> pi_lock
Also add irq_work_sync() to cleanup_srcu_struct() to prevent a
use-after-free if a queued irq_work fires after cleanup begins.
Tested with rcutorture SRCU-T and no lockdep warnings.
[ Thanks to Boqun for similar fix in patch "rcu: Use an intermediate irq_work
to start process_srcu()" ]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.12 < 6.19.14)
• linux linux kernel 7.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20b98d9ffb09763048a7c84b47403eb0f177272c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2127e6b79d9d579ea538a350d1bbe859e39814d5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28768bc7ea0b13f558a70f63cc3cfcd32d55d488 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6fc88b22bc8d12ad52e8412c667ec0f5bf055af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb37286db65368cb72ba8757ad86299c4e4a73fc Patch