CVE-2026-43340

comedi: Reinit dev->spinlock between attachments to low-level drivers

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 8, 2026
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

comedi: Reinit dev->spinlock between attachments to low-level drivers

`struct comedi_device` is the main controlling structure for a COMEDI device created by the COMEDI subsystem. It contains a member `spinlock` containing a spin-lock that is initialized by the COMEDI subsystem, but is reserved for use by a low-level driver attached to the COMEDI device (at least since commit 25436dc9d84f ("Staging: comedi: remove RT code")).

Some COMEDI devices (those created on initialization of the COMEDI subsystem when the "comedi.comedi_num_legacy_minors" parameter is non-zero) can be attached to different low-level drivers over their lifetime using the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl command. This can result in inconsistent lock states being reported when there is a mismatch in the spin-lock locking levels used by each low-level driver to which the COMEDI device has been attached. Fix it by reinitializing `dev->spinlock` before calling the low-level driver's `attach` function pointer if `CONFIG_LOCKDEP` is enabled.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before 3181c34b415c5464be9d34bff3e43ef63b747039Affected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before 2b1f49e4fdff3ef0f8e9158bbb5b149e06287560Affected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before 4d5ffe524903a30e2e0da7d16841a56bec2de55cAffected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before c01bcc67a9a692d65508ebd480405b5e77d562b7Affected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before 430291d8f3884f57ae0057049b0ca291453e29e1Affected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before b89c026227712c367950bbae055a5b31073d3b30Affected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before 83134a7a176ce5b4b19b6edecf4360e8d98d1a5aAffected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before 4b9a9a6d71e3e252032f959fb3895a33acb5865cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.29Affected
  • before 2.6.29Not affected
  • 5.10.253 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.203 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.168 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.134 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.81 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.22 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.12 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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