CVE-2026-68334 (GCVE-0-2026-68334)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:03 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:03
VLAI
Title
rxrpc: fix io_thread race in rxrpc_wake_up_io_thread()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: fix io_thread race in rxrpc_wake_up_io_thread() rxrpc_wake_up_io_thread() checks local->io_thread before waking it, but then reloads the pointer for wake_up_process(). local->io_thread is cleared with WRITE_ONCE() when the I/O thread exits, so the second load can see NULL even if the first load did not. Take a READ_ONCE() snapshot and use it for both the NULL check and the wake_up_process() call, as rxrpc_encap_rcv() already does.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5800b1cf3fd8ccab752a101865be1e76dac33142 , < c9165e199f56997f2f2deb5d3ec2dfab98dfa288 (git)
Affected: 5800b1cf3fd8ccab752a101865be1e76dac33142 , < 092b42cf3f6013eec43607ecbcad674723649514 (git)
Affected: 5800b1cf3fd8ccab752a101865be1e76dac33142 , < 745fb794c3e933c023af9dbb5876a5e16ad2dc71 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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