CVE-2026-43115

MEDIUM

srcu: Use irq_work to start GP in tiny SRCU

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: srcu: Use irq_work to start GP in tiny SRCU Tiny SRCU's srcu_gp_start_if_needed() directly calls schedule_work(), which acquires the workqueue pool->lock. This causes a lockdep splat when call_srcu() is called with a scheduler lock held, due to: call_srcu() [holding pi_lock] srcu_gp_start_if_needed() schedule_work() -> pool->lock workqueue_init() / create_worker() [holding pool->lock] wake_up_process() -> try_to_wake_up() -> pi_lock Also add irq_work_sync() to cleanup_srcu_struct() to prevent a use-after-free if a queued irq_work fires after cleanup begins. Tested with rcutorture SRCU-T and no lockdep warnings. [ Thanks to Boqun for similar fix in patch "rcu: Use an intermediate irq_work to start process_srcu()" ]

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 3.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (10)
Linux/Linux < 4.12
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - a6fc88b22bc8d12ad52e8412c667ec0f5bf055af
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - bb37286db65368cb72ba8757ad86299c4e4a73fc
Linux/Linux 4.12
Linux/Linux 6.19.14 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
Linux/Linux d8be81735aa89413b333de488251f0e64e2be591 - a6fc88b22bc8d12ad52e8412c667ec0f5bf055af
Linux/Linux d8be81735aa89413b333de488251f0e64e2be591 - bb37286db65368cb72ba8757ad86299c4e4a73fc
linux/linux_kernel 7.0 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 4.12 - 6.19.14
Published May 06, 2026
Tracked Since May 06, 2026