CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64428
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-09-04
- 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:
gpio: sch: use raw_spinlock_t in the irq startup path
sch_irq_unmask() enables the GPIO IRQ and then updates the controller
state through sch_irq_mask_unmask(), which takes sch->lock with
spin_lock_irqsave(). The callback can be reached from irq_startup()
while setting up a requested IRQ. That path is not sleepable, but on
PREEMPT_RT a regular spinlock_t becomes a sleeping lock.
This issue was found by our static analysis tool and then manually
reviewed against the current tree.
The grounded PoC kept the request_threaded_irq() -> __setup_irq() ->
irq_startup() -> sch_irq_unmask() -> sch_irq_mask_unmask() carrier and
used the original spin_lock_irqsave(&sch->lock) edge. Lockdep reported:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
hardirqs last disabled at ... __setup_irq.constprop.0 ... [vuln_msv]
sch_rt_spin_lock_irqsave+0x1c/0x30 [vuln_msv]
sch_irq_mask_unmask.constprop.0+0x31/0x70 [vuln_msv]
__setup_irq.constprop.0+0xd/0x30 [vuln_msv]
Convert the SCH controller lock to raw_spinlock_t. The same lock is
also used by the GPIO direction and value callbacks, but those critical
sections only update MMIO-backed GPIO registers and do not contain
sleepable operations. Keeping this register lock non-sleeping is
therefore appropriate for the irqchip callbacks and does not change the
GPIO-side locking contract.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13 < 5.15.212)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.178)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.145)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.97)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.1.4)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/286533cb14a3c8a8bd39ff64ea2fc8e1aa0f638b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b1aa05ec27eeccc889ecaa3f2d9baa9f453e50d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41cad91a09d69e8fff4e936db29b1054b4e9f9f7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4508366ab7dd0c2917a51a9c2e23cc1b9d35157a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f03a15cc73c83740fc355ee22b336492d17b4da Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a550256d68bbdfa0903ab1c4595c04a6815493a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a235cec779bb39ec8f961a935b28a2ce278c6c64 Patch