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CVE-2026-43115 (GCVE-0-2026-43115)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 07:40 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:18
VLAI
Title
srcu: Use irq_work to start GP in tiny SRCU
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: srcu: Use irq_work to start GP in tiny SRCU Tiny SRCU's srcu_gp_start_if_needed() directly calls schedule_work(), which acquires the workqueue pool->lock. This causes a lockdep splat when call_srcu() is called with a scheduler lock held, due to: call_srcu() [holding pi_lock] srcu_gp_start_if_needed() schedule_work() -> pool->lock workqueue_init() / create_worker() [holding pool->lock] wake_up_process() -> try_to_wake_up() -> pi_lock Also add irq_work_sync() to cleanup_srcu_struct() to prevent a use-after-free if a queued irq_work fires after cleanup begins. Tested with rcutorture SRCU-T and no lockdep warnings. [ Thanks to Boqun for similar fix in patch "rcu: Use an intermediate irq_work to start process_srcu()" ]
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d8be81735aa89413b333de488251f0e64e2be591 , < bb37286db65368cb72ba8757ad86299c4e4a73fc (git)
Affected: d8be81735aa89413b333de488251f0e64e2be591 , < a6fc88b22bc8d12ad52e8412c667ec0f5bf055af (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.14 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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