CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-80548

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, in the s390/vfio_ccw subsystem, the scope of io_mutex has been expanded to close remaining synchronization gaps. It also takes advantage of moving cp_free() to a workqueue, allowing safe lock management.

Risk Assessment

Lack of synchronization can lead to races that may cause system crashes or data integrity issues.

Recommendation

Apply the kernel patch that expands the scope of io_mutex to ensure full synchronization of I/O operations.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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