Bug 2555235 (CVE-2026-98832) - CVE-2026-98832 kernel: blk-cgroup: save IRQ state in blkg_tryget_closest()
Summary: CVE-2026-98832 kernel: blk-cgroup: save IRQ state in blkg_tryget_closest()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98832
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-18 16:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-23 21:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 16:03:43 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

blk-cgroup: save IRQ state in blkg_tryget_closest()

bio_set_dev() associates the bio with a blkg through bio_associate_blkg().
If the blkg lookup misses, blkg_tryget_closest() takes q->queue_lock with
spin_lock_irq() and releases it with spin_unlock_irq(), which
unconditionally enables local interrupts.

Callers may call bio_set_dev() with interrupts already disabled, e.g.
dm-thin's pool_map() does so while holding pool->lock taken with
spin_lock_irq().  The nested spin_unlock_irq() then enables interrupts
while pool->lock is still held, so an I/O completion softirq can run on
the same CPU, re-acquire pool->lock (thin_endio(), or overwrite_endio()
-> complete_mapping_preparation()) and deadlock.  lockdep reports this
as inconsistent SOFTIRQ-ON-W to IN-SOFTIRQ-W usage.

Commit 3a762de55b4e ("block: save irq state in blkg_lookup_create()")
fixed the same problem while the lock lived in blkg_lookup_create(), but
commit 9327a865e395 ("blk-cgroup: don't nest queue_lock under rcu in
blkg_lookup_create()") moved the locking into blkg_tryget_closest() and
reverted it to spin_lock_irq().

Save and restore the caller's IRQ state instead.


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