CVE-2026-80548
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/vfio_ccw: Selectively expand io_mutex The io_mutex was defined to serialize the io_regions, but then has also sort of been associated with the I/O themselves because of the close relationship they share. With the handful of races that are possible, the choices are either to: A) expand the scope of io_mutex to close these remaining windows, or B) reduce the scope of io_mutex to just io_region, and introduce a new lock mechanism for the remaining I/O resources This patch implements A, since B brings with it a lot more interactions that would need to be tracked and kept in a correct hierarchy. It also takes advantage of the workqueue element for cp_free() that now gets called out of fsm_notoper(), which could be invoked out of an interrupt context and thus cannot acquire a mutex itself.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 7% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a5ac0c0f1f7da33929211a2e41911bf72ee35d8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ba9efdf9ebedc4e54df4b56aa3b43a65f7967cd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34f4feff3e90bd09308fad0974e97113b23b812a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56d7488533ceac4e986e96e15c9e487a2245bc01
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6aecea4b2b246f9fbd98a5712daa1193a60818e