CVE-2026-80548

s390/vfio_ccw: Selectively expand io_mutex

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Aug 26, 2026
Updated
Oct 16, 2026
Reserved
Aug 26, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 to before dab6a6627b0b0cce23653e99c7b0bf8c6cfd82e0Affected
  • 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 to before 56d7488533ceac4e986e96e15c9e487a2245bc01Affected
  • 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 to before f72a51810d49411bd8cad0c2df8592320a2fe5ccAffected
  • 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 to before 2ba9efdf9ebedc4e54df4b56aa3b43a65f7967cdAffected
  • 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 to before b6aecea4b2b246f9fbd98a5712daa1193a60818eAffected
  • 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 to before 2a5ac0c0f1f7da33929211a2e41911bf72ee35d8Affected
  • 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 to before 34f4feff3e90bd09308fad0974e97113b23b812aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.2Affected
  • before 5.2Not affected
  • 5.15.218 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.185 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.153 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.105 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.46 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.10 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

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