Bug 2541284 (CVE-2026-98094)

Summary: CVE-2026-98094 kernel: staging: fbtft: make dirty_lock IRQ-safe
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's fbtft (framebuffer support for small TFT displays) driver. This flaw allows a local user to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by triggering a kernel deadlock. The issue arises from a lock inversion between the display driver lock and the system console lock when screen updates occur during interrupt handling, causing the system to freeze.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-25 11:14:54 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

staging: fbtft: make dirty_lock IRQ-safe

fbtft_mkdirty() can be reached from the fbcon rendering path while
processing printk() in hardirq context. Meanwhile, dirty_lock is also
taken by fbtft_deferred_io() in workqueue context with local interrupts
enabled.

Lockdep reports a possible IRQ lock inversion involving dirty_lock and
console_owner. A hardirq can interrupt a CPU holding dirty_lock and
enter the console rendering path, which can attempt to acquire
dirty_lock again.

The following lockdep report was observed on an RK3566 system with
CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING enabled:

  WARNING: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected
  swapper/2/0 just changed the state of lock:
  (console_owner){-...}-{0:0}
  but this lock took another, HARDIRQ-unsafe lock in the past:
  (&par->dirty_lock){+.+.}-{2:2}

  CPU0                    CPU1
  ----                    ----
  lock(&par->dirty_lock);
                         local_irq_disable();
                         lock(console_owner);
                         lock(&par->dirty_lock);
  <Interrupt>
    lock(console_owner);

  *** DEADLOCK ***

Use spin_lock_irqsave() for fbtft_mkdirty() and spin_lock_irq() for
fbtft_deferred_io(). They only access the dirty line range, so the
IRQ-off regions remain short.