CVE-2026-80548

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux
PublishedAug 26, 2026
First seenAug 26, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • Linux Linuxdab6a6627b0b0cce23653e99c7b0bf8c6cfd82e0, 56d7488533ceac4e986e96e15c9e487a2245bc01, f72a51810d49411bd8cad0c2df8592320a2fe5cc, 2ba9efdf9ebedc4e54df4b56aa3b43a65f7967cd, b6aecea4b2b246f9fbd98a5712daa1193a60818e, 2a5ac0c0f1f7da33929211a2e41911bf72ee35d8, 34f4feff3e90bd09308fad0974e97113b23b812a or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Linux Linux4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 ≤ v < dab6a6627b0b0cce23653e99c7b0bf8c6cfd82e0, 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 ≤ v < 56d7488533ceac4e986e96e15c9e487a2245bc01, 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 ≤ v < f72a51810d49411bd8cad0c2df8592320a2fe5cc, 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 ≤ v < 2ba9efdf9ebedc4e54df4b56aa3b43a65f7967cd, 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 ≤ v < b6aecea4b2b246f9fbd98a5712daa1193a60818e, 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 ≤ v < 2a5ac0c0f1f7da33929211a2e41911bf72ee35d8, 4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c963 ≤ v < 34f4feff3e90bd09308fad0974e97113b23b812a, 5.2dab6a6627b0b0cce23653e99c7b0bf8c6cfd82e0, 56d7488533ceac4e986e96e15c9e487a2245bc01, f72a51810d49411bd8cad0c2df8592320a2fe5cc, 2ba9efdf9ebedc4e54df4b56aa3b43a65f7967cd, b6aecea4b2b246f9fbd98a5712daa1193a60818e, 2a5ac0c0f1f7da33929211a2e41911bf72ee35d8, 34f4feff3e90bd09308fad0974e97113b23b812a

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