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CVE-2026-23275

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel related to task work flag manipulation in the context of io_uring has been resolved. The issue occurred during ring resizing, potentially leading to incorrect processing of the IORING_SQ_TASKRUN flag.

Risk Assessment

Organizations may be exposed to unexpected system behavior, which could lead to task processing errors and potential security vulnerabilities.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to the latest version to eliminate this vulnerability and ensure the stability of io_uring operations.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: ensure ctx->rings is stable for task work flags manipulation If DEFER_TASKRUN | SETUP_TASKRUN is used and task work is added while the ring is being resized, it's possible for the OR'ing of IORING_SQ_TASKRUN to happen in the small window of swapping into the new rings and the old rings being freed. Prevent this by adding a 2nd ->rings pointer, ->rings_rcu, which is protected by RCU. The task work flags manipulation is inside RCU already, and if the resize ring freeing is done post an RCU synchronize, then there's no need to add locking to the fast path of task work additions. Note: this is only done for DEFER_TASKRUN, as that's the only setup mode that supports ring resizing. If this ever changes, then they too need to use the io_ctx_mark_taskrun() helper.

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