CVE-2026-93098

rpmsg: glink: fix deadlock in endpoint destroy during driver detach

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

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Description

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

rpmsg: glink: fix deadlock in endpoint destroy during driver detach

During driver detach, the device core holds the device mutex throughout the driver's remove callback chain. When the rpmsg endpoint is destroyed as part of that teardown, the GLINK endpoint destroy implementation attempts to unregister the underlying rpmsg device. That unregistration calls device_del(), which tries to re-acquire the same device mutex already held higher up the stack, causing rmmod to hang indefinitely.

The deadlock manifests with the following call chain:

[<0>] device_del+0x44/0x414  <- tries to acquire same mutex [<0>] device_unregister+0x18/0x34 [<0>] rpmsg_unregister_device+0x28/0x4c [<0>] qcom_glink_remove_rpmsg_device+0x70/0xc0 [<0>] qcom_glink_destroy_ept+0x58/0xbc [<0>] rpmsg_dev_remove+0x50/0x60 [<0>] device_remove+0x4c/0x80 [<0>] device_release_driver_internal+0x1cc/0x228 <- acquires device mutex [<0>] driver_detach+0x4c/0x98 [<0>] bus_remove_driver+0x6c/0xbc [<0>] driver_unregister+0x30/0x60 [<0>] unregister_rpmsg_driver+0x10/0x1c [<0>] fastrpc_exit+0x28/0x38 [fastrpc] [<0>] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x1b8/0x294 [<0>] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x10c [<0>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc0/0xe0 [<0>] do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28 [<0>] el0_svc+0x34/0x108 [<0>] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe4 [<0>] el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c

The rpmsg device unregistration inside endpoint destroy is redundant. In both contexts where endpoint destruction is triggered:

- Driver detach path: the driver core already tears down the rpmsg device.

- Channel close path: the rpmsg device is already unregistered before endpoint destruction is reached.

Remove the redundant unregistration to fix the deadlock.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 93b6b9e4acff4794e7426d3ad64ef14e3b3e8919 to before 73092c2292aa65515671e54abbcda2166d3827edAffected
  • 24fd02c3a4798de7dc94b55d36a1685fe6cdaf69 to before bbc236357876d35a624030e5c50eedbc380be98eAffected
  • 32fe8cdf541863239b81c80b8b04112d6e8792cf to before 8597f669a5268e0dcf243e2b2d6ca00370117057Affected
  • c6210714347f72bae8e7142dc0a7f99923c466e7 to before 48f55b90f0d713e477e26b85d7327d9592d016f9Affected
  • fcab5c2672f8dac3d77013dbe047b2441f4141f5 to before cbcdf96e1c87bc07055d04264018ded1f3bafffbAffected
  • f80e4e91b010ee7d6c52f24d069975ac955ac6b2 to before ecad679e2b92c419cc22cc8f257cd457d5192647Affected
  • a53e356df548f6b0e82529ef3cc6070f42622189 to before e559626bee8a6632aafc08eedcdb4bf26ca245c5Affected
  • a53e356df548f6b0e82529ef3cc6070f42622189 to before 5a5a48e788e02fd8a8eb7188ce440572d6c12418Affected
  • 5.10.248 to before 5.10.270Affected
  • 5.15.198 to before 5.15.221Affected
  • 6.1.160 to before 6.1.188Affected
  • 6.6.120 to before 6.6.157Affected
  • 6.12.64 to before 6.12.110Affected
  • 6.18.3 to before 6.18.52Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.19Affected
  • before 6.19Not affected
  • 5.10.270 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.221 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.188 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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