CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-80548
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-26
- Last modified
- 2026-10-16
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/vfio_ccw: Selectively expand io_mutex
The io_mutex was defined to serialize the io_regions, but then has
also sort of been associated with the I/O themselves because of
the close relationship they share.
With the handful of races that are possible, the choices are either to:
A) expand the scope of io_mutex to close these remaining windows, or
B) reduce the scope of io_mutex to just io_region, and introduce a new
lock mechanism for the remaining I/O resources
This patch implements A, since B brings with it a lot more interactions
that would need to be tracked and kept in a correct hierarchy. It also
takes advantage of the workqueue element for cp_free() that now gets
called out of fsm_notoper(), which could be invoked out of an interrupt
context and thus cannot acquire a mutex itself.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a5ac0c0f1f7da33929211a2e41911bf72ee35d8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ba9efdf9ebedc4e54df4b56aa3b43a65f7967cd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34f4feff3e90bd09308fad0974e97113b23b812a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56d7488533ceac4e986e96e15c9e487a2245bc01 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6aecea4b2b246f9fbd98a5712daa1193a60818e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dab6a6627b0b0cce23653e99c7b0bf8c6cfd82e0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f72a51810d49411bd8cad0c2df8592320a2fe5cc git.kernel.org