CVE-2026-81010

io_uring/waitid: honor task_work cancellation

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Aug 26, 2026

Read the record on cve.org

Description

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

io_uring/waitid: honor task_work cancellation

io_waitid_cb() may run through the fallback task_work path when task_work_add() can no longer queue work to the originating task. The fallback runs from a kworker and io_uring marks such task work as canceled through tw.cancel.

io_waitid_cb() currently ignores tw.cancel and calls __do_wait(). waitid is task-context dependent: __do_wait() performs child lookup relative to current, and the retry path also uses current->signal->wait_chldexit. If the callback runs from the fallback kworker, current is therefore not the task that submitted the request.

Honor tw.cancel before entering __do_wait(). Complete the request with -ECANCELED and skip the siginfo copy, since canceled task work may run without the submitting task's userspace execution context.

Keep the existing siginfo handling for normal waitid completion and explicit cancellation.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f31ecf671ddc498f20219453395794ff2383e06b to before 0879697520abda2383ed7be40572ad583b5c4b02Affected
  • f31ecf671ddc498f20219453395794ff2383e06b to before 7bc98e2de8c58a2bfaf0f540eb096a386ecfc96cAffected
  • f31ecf671ddc498f20219453395794ff2383e06b to before 14572de82e5022899e5856008bc9cac97004a88cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.7Affected
  • before 6.7Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

References

Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.