CVE-2026-80548

s390/vfio_ccw: Selectively expand io_mutex

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 26, 2026 at 02:37 PM UTC
Updated: October 16, 2026 at 08:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/vfio_ccw: Selectively expand io_mutex The io_mutex was defined to serialize the io_regions, but then has also sort of been associated with the I/O themselves because of the close relationship they share. With the handful of races that are possible, the choices are either to: A) expand the scope of io_mutex to close these remaining windows, or B) reduce the scope of io_mutex to just io_region, and introduce a new lock mechanism for the remaining I/O resources This patch implements A, since B brings with it a lot more interactions that would need to be tracked and kept in a correct hierarchy. It also takes advantage of the workqueue element for cp_free() that now gets called out of fsm_notoper(), which could be invoked out of an interrupt context and thus cannot acquire a mutex itself.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

4f76617378ee97c557b526cb58d3c61eb0a9c9635.2
Vendor states this is fixed in 2a5ac0c0f1f7da33929211a2e41911bf72ee35d8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2ba9efdf9ebedc4e54df4b56aa3b43a65f7967cd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 34f4feff3e90bd09308fad0974e97113b23b812a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 56d7488533ceac4e986e96e15c9e487a2245bc01 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b6aecea4b2b246f9fbd98a5712daa1193a60818e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in dab6a6627b0b0cce23653e99c7b0bf8c6cfd82e0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f72a51810d49411bd8cad0c2df8592320a2fe5cc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.218 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.185 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.105 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.46 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.153 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

8.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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