CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98669
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: buffer: serialize buffer teardown with mode claims
Buffer-mode claims hold mlock to guarantee that the device remains in
buffer mode until the claim is released. Normal buffer updates take
info_exist_lock followed by mlock in iio_update_buffers().
However, iio_device_unregister() disables and deactivates all buffers
without taking mlock. This can invalidate buffer state, including
active_scan_mask, while a buffer-mode claim is held.
Take mlock in iio_disable_all_buffers() so that unregister honors the
mode-claim lifetime guarantee. The info_exist_lock -> mlock ordering
matches iio_update_buffers().
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a728408ff522b749c2a3c7e68f44e861fa0dbfb git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84bb0fc46ccf6a545b8fdf57cda83770186ed8dd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89f3852a28fcf7bab599280cb082baa0675536db git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b466db9e68b4741af85f6c017e2bb0a2f025053f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e63188d77e10c0951bf67da6c295f768fd1abf4b git.kernel.org