CVE-2026-74617 (GCVE-0-2026-74617)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-22 15:32 – Updated: 2026-08-25 05:40
VLAI
Title
dibs: initialise dibs->lock in dibs_dev_alloc()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dibs: initialise dibs->lock in dibs_dev_alloc() dibs->lock is initialised by dibs_dev_add(), but a dibs device can already take interrupts before that call: ism_probe() runs ism_dev_init(), and hence request_irq(), before it calls dibs_dev_add(). No client can have registered a dmb at that point, so no dmb interrupt can occur, but a GID event interrupt can, and ism_handle_irq() takes dibs->lock unconditionally on entry, before it inspects anything else. Initialise the lock in dibs_dev_alloc() instead, so that it is valid as soon as a driver can publish the device to its interrupt handler.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: cc21191b584c6f7836b0f10774f8278b7cbfba10 , < fe79571f40434b257d68cbfb7b3ae93a794d8a11 (git)
Affected: cc21191b584c6f7836b0f10774f8278b7cbfba10 , < 2926031acba100d0c18fcfaa7a2ed29609318848 (git)
Affected: cc21191b584c6f7836b0f10774f8278b7cbfba10 , < c27e360545373b7aee9862a5beef3b9fb3df0c25 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.45 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.9 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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