CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-90431
- 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:
remoteproc: Prevent crash handling to race with rproc_del()
There's no synchronization between rproc_crash_handler_work() and
rproc_del(), as such it's possible for a driver to be removed while
crash-handler work is scheduled, or even executing - resulting in
use-after-free issues.
To avoid this the scheduled work need to be cancelled and synchronized
against before the removal proceeds.
In order to ensure that this doesn't race with the reporting, and
thereby scheduling new work, a "deleting" flag is introduced. This is
similar to the RPROC_DELETE state that was introduced to ensure that
"start" didn't race with rproc_del(), but the existing mechanism can not
be used as it's valid to call rproc_report_crash() in atomic context -
and the "state" is protected by a mutex.
In the event that work is cancelled the pm_stay_awake() is left
unbalanced and need to be unrolled.
The blocking and cancelling of crash-handler work prior to the actual
rproc_shutdown() call does have the explicit side-effect that crashes
resulting from the shutdown process will not enter the crash-handling
path, and as such will not generate devcoredumps etc. Due to the
existing mutual exclusion between these code paths there's no concrete
reduction in functionality, but further work would be needed to handle
this case.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47de033918cd772146f7438aa04471c020b2dedc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50f232c26298923d39a48dc8e03d1732e5a5dcf1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61862ed651b2493573e6d2192d5640bc6616f5d0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69af36f1fb7d24d287662fef6b2093bcf847a9db git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74ee3b2f5767447c57959994341e5b95f1079977 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a31d9562eeec5c4103c202fc87651f6e7d3d0035 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8a62cb4d2f3fd6aa06e86f1711c62d2a4cf17d5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f15cde11298402f803d5dda9cb9f95eea3d2ca40 git.kernel.org