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CVE-2026-64428

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio: sch: use raw_spinlock_t in the irq startup path sch_irq_unmask() enables the GPIO IRQ and then updates the controller state through sch_irq_mask_unmask(), which takes sch->lock with spin_lock_irqsave(). The callback can be reached from irq_startup() while setting up a requested IRQ. That path is not sleepable, but on PREEMPT_RT a regular spinlock_t becomes a sleeping lock. This issue was found by our static analysis tool and then manually reviewed against the current tree. The grounded PoC kept the request_threaded_irq() -> __setup_irq() -> irq_startup() -> sch_irq_unmask() -> sch_irq_mask_unmask() carrier and used the original spin_lock_irqsave(&sch->lock) edge. Lockdep reported: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context hardirqs last disabled at ... __setup_irq.constprop.0 ... [vuln_msv] sch_rt_spin_lock_irqsave+0x1c/0x30 [vuln_msv] sch_irq_mask_unmask.constprop.0+0x31/0x70 [vuln_msv] __setup_irq.constprop.0+0xd/0x30 [vuln_msv] Convert the SCH controller lock to raw_spinlock_t. The same lock is also used by the GPIO direction and value callbacks, but those critical sections only update MMIO-backed GPIO registers and do not contain sleepable operations. Keeping this register lock non-sleeping is therefore appropriate for the irqchip callbacks and does not change the GPIO-side locking contract.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-64428
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-07-19 15:36 UTC
Published
2026-07-25 08:51 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-25 08:51 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 7a81638485c1a62a87b4c391ecc9c651a4a9dc19 < 3b1aa05ec27eeccc889ecaa3f2d9baa9f453e50d, 7a81638485c1a62a87b4c391ecc9c651a4a9dc19 < 4f03a15cc73c83740fc355ee22b336492d17b4da, 7a81638485c1a62a87b4c391ecc9c651a4a9dc19 < 7a550256d68bbdfa0903ab1c4595c04a6815493a, 7a81638485c1a62a87b4c391ecc9c651a4a9dc19 < a235cec779bb39ec8f961a935b28a2ce278c6c64 …
Linux Linux 5.13, 0 < 5.13, 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.*, 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* …
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