CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-98094

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-09-25 Modified 2026-10-23 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-09-25
Last modified
2026-10-23
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
Weaknesses
CWE-667

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: fbtft: make dirty_lock IRQ-safe fbtft_mkdirty() can be reached from the fbcon rendering path while processing printk() in hardirq context. Meanwhile, dirty_lock is also taken by fbtft_deferred_io() in workqueue context with local interrupts enabled. Lockdep reports a possible IRQ lock inversion involving dirty_lock and console_owner. A hardirq can interrupt a CPU holding dirty_lock and enter the console rendering path, which can attempt to acquire dirty_lock again. The following lockdep report was observed on an RK3566 system with CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING enabled: WARNING: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected swapper/2/0 just changed the state of lock: (console_owner){-...}-{0:0} but this lock took another, HARDIRQ-unsafe lock in the past: (&par->dirty_lock){+.+.}-{2:2} CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(&par->dirty_lock); local_irq_disable(); lock(console_owner); lock(&par->dirty_lock); <Interrupt> lock(console_owner); *** DEADLOCK *** Use spin_lock_irqsave() for fbtft_mkdirty() and spin_lock_irq() for fbtft_deferred_io(). They only access the dirty line range, so the IRQ-off regions remain short.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.0 < 5.10.271) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.222) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.189) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.158) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.111) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.53) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.2.7) • linux linux kernel 7.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness

References