CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-90209
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/debug: Fix deadlock during unregister
Unregistering an s390dbf debug area while one of the associated debugfs
files is being written to can cause a deadlock:
$ echo >.../vmur/level $ rmmod vmur
===================================================
debugfs write
debugfs_file_get()
debug_unregister()
mutex_lock(debug_mutex)
debugfs_remove()
wait for debugfs_file_put()
debug_file_ops.write()
debug_input()
mutex_lock(debug_mutex) ==> DEADLOCK
Fix this by splitting debug_unregister() into an s390dbf and debugfs
part, and running only the s390dbf part with debug_mutex locked.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/183f8f6d64bb0510070c856b9927618c53014a7b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/445c31ac638fd1af203d79bdf25fc0cb3149fbbc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45bb341d1b73eb293e0dd43d9b72bbc8b615d0ba git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54e1259b75d6402a1d0cfb822b9bb2c507e53dab git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d83f3faa3fb7f23f298cfd40382611999de5d1d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a08b70ed2d1ec907353a72f15163b8e34ff4b2f8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a214c3dacc779b2afcb0ac9c8001e45ee4ffb2ed git.kernel.org