CVE-2026-43442 — io_uring: fix physical SQE bounds check for SQE_MIXED 128-byte ops

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring: fix physical SQE bounds check for SQE_MIXED 128-byte ops

When IORING_SETUP_SQE_MIXED is used without IORING_SETUP_NO_SQARRAY, the boundary check for 128-byte SQE operations in io_init_req() validated the logical SQ head position rather than the physical SQE index.

The existing check:

!(ctx->cached_sq_head & (ctx->sq_entries - 1))

ensures the logical position isn't at the end of the ring, which is correct for NO_SQARRAY rings where physical == logical. However, when sq_array is present, an unprivileged user can remap any logical position to an arbitrary physical index via sq_array. Setting sq_array[N] = sq_entries - 1 places a 128-byte operation at the last physical SQE slot, causing the 128-byte memcpy in io_uring_cmd_sqe_copy() to read 64 bytes past the end of the SQE array.

Replace the cached_sq_head alignment check with a direct validation of the physical SQE index, which correctly handles both sq_array and NO_SQARRAY cases.

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CVE-2026-43442 — io_uring: fix physical SQE bounds check for SQE_MIXED 128-byte ops