CVE-2026-98832

blk-cgroup: save IRQ state in blkg_tryget_closest()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 18, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 25, 2026

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Description

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

blk-cgroup: save IRQ state in blkg_tryget_closest()

bio_set_dev() associates the bio with a blkg through bio_associate_blkg(). If the blkg lookup misses, blkg_tryget_closest() takes q->queue_lock with spin_lock_irq() and releases it with spin_unlock_irq(), which unconditionally enables local interrupts.

Callers may call bio_set_dev() with interrupts already disabled, e.g. dm-thin's pool_map() does so while holding pool->lock taken with spin_lock_irq(). The nested spin_unlock_irq() then enables interrupts while pool->lock is still held, so an I/O completion softirq can run on the same CPU, re-acquire pool->lock (thin_endio(), or overwrite_endio() -> complete_mapping_preparation()) and deadlock. lockdep reports this as inconsistent SOFTIRQ-ON-W to IN-SOFTIRQ-W usage.

Commit 3a762de55b4e ("block: save irq state in blkg_lookup_create()") fixed the same problem while the lock lived in blkg_lookup_create(), but commit 9327a865e395 ("blk-cgroup: don't nest queue_lock under rcu in blkg_lookup_create()") moved the locking into blkg_tryget_closest() and reverted it to spin_lock_irq().

Save and restore the caller's IRQ state instead.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 9327a865e395a53f67dffac4710beb1d4730495e to before 9fcf4317384ce6758c3127a6e8914c54cbb9c8ccAffected
  • 9327a865e395a53f67dffac4710beb1d4730495e to before 327c428ba79b13e4cc5253333a9d5c0aa5579bdfAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 7.2Affected
  • before 7.2Not affected
  • 7.2.10 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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