CVE-2026-90305

ARM: 9483/1: select HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

ARM: 9483/1: select HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK

Commit c6e61c06d606 ("ARM: 9463/1: Allow to enable RT") enabled PREEMPT_RT on ARM but did not select HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK. This leaves CONFIG_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK disabled, so CPU timers expire in hard IRQ context.

On PREEMPT_RT this makes run_posix_cpu_timers() take the sleeping sighand->siglock:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at spinlock_rt.c:48 rt_spin_lock from lock_task_sighand lock_task_sighand from run_posix_cpu_timers run_posix_cpu_timers from update_process_times

ARM handles TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME on all return-to-user paths, including v7-M. ARM32 KVM host support was removed by commit 541ad0150ca4 ("arm: Remove 32bit KVM host support"), so the select need not be conditional on KVM.

Select it to defer POSIX CPU timer expiry to task context.

Reproduced with setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU, ...) and a busy loop. The same path is used by setitimer(ITIMER_PROF or ITIMER_VIRTUAL) and POSIX CPU timers created with timer_create().

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c6e61c06d6061750597e79c598acb5dead44c35b to before 8de56782d6e5ba7a9f8c820342dccde65502f93fAffected
  • c6e61c06d6061750597e79c598acb5dead44c35b to before 8a58a41100ea377e978d99600ec24a9bd0273662Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 7.1Affected
  • before 7.1Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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