CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-97986
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtio_input: stop callbacks before unregistering input device
virtinput_remove() unregisters the input device before resetting the
virtio device. virtinput_recv_events() drops vi->lock around input_event(),
so clearing vi->ready does not stop a callback that passed the entry check.
It can still use vi->idev, requeue buffers and kick the queue.
Reset first, as virtinput_freeze() already does. With the preceding core
change, reset waits for callbacks before input_unregister_device() can
free vi->idev. Recheck vi->ready after taking the lock again: keep draining
completed events so an input packet is not truncated, but stop requeueing
buffers and kicking the queue.
With evdev attached, input_unregister_handle() currently waits for an RCU
grace period, which also waits out IRQ callbacks. This masks the lifetime
bug on PCI and MMIO, but does not protect sleepable callbacks on other
transports.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ae729b1f8ab81d1244061872db2fb0ebb110d2a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5378f7945856a5ed88e6f9850bc7a68f54090135 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81073bca2062c916c818f2744fbab545a5c4982b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8226aeee9b9a94cd699fbb51cb230feff46cfaf2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3ba86a270dd87460759214046dc7cbd409ac711 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7808b37da0a619cf1fa541c2384e783fecc2480 git.kernel.org