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CVE-2026-80548 (GCVE-0-2026-80548)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-26 14:37 – Updated: 2026-08-27 12:40
VLAI
Title
s390/vfio_ccw: Selectively expand io_mutex
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/vfio_ccw: Selectively expand io_mutex The io_mutex was defined to serialize the io_regions, but then has also sort of been associated with the I/O themselves because of the close relationship they share. With the handful of races that are possible, the choices are either to: A) expand the scope of io_mutex to close these remaining windows, or B) reduce the scope of io_mutex to just io_region, and introduce a new lock mechanism for the remaining I/O resources This patch implements A, since B brings with it a lot more interactions that would need to be tracked and kept in a correct hierarchy. It also takes advantage of the workqueue element for cp_free() that now gets called out of fsm_notoper(), which could be invoked out of an interrupt context and thus cannot acquire a mutex itself.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 , < dab6a6627b0b0cce23653e99c7b0bf8c6cfd82e0 (git)
Affected: 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 , < 56d7488533ceac4e986e96e15c9e487a2245bc01 (git)
Affected: 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 , < f72a51810d49411bd8cad0c2df8592320a2fe5cc (git)
Affected: 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 , < 2ba9efdf9ebedc4e54df4b56aa3b43a65f7967cd (git)
Affected: 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 , < b6aecea4b2b246f9fbd98a5712daa1193a60818e (git)
Affected: 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 , < 2a5ac0c0f1f7da33929211a2e41911bf72ee35d8 (git)
Affected: 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 , < 34f4feff3e90bd09308fad0974e97113b23b812a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.218 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.185 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.153 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.105 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.46 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.10 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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