CVE-2026-99263

io_uring/poll: avoid retry wakeup loss when dropping ownership

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Published: November 3, 2026 at 11:48 AM UTC
Updated: November 3, 2026 at 08:18 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/poll: avoid retry wakeup loss when dropping ownership If a wakeup sets IO_POLL_RETRY_FLAG between the owning task consuming the existing instance of IO_POLL_RETRY_FLAG and the loop check of io_poll_check_events(), then we stall on processing the request until an unrelated wakeup comes along. Using atomic_cmpxchg instead of atomic_sub_return to guarantee both the count v and poll_refs are 0 and no wake-ups are missed.

Affected

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

4b702b7d11ce1b9d26fc6d7c5a7ef4ac1d4550485.15.826.0.116.1a26a35e9019fd70bf3cf647dcfdae87abc7baceabc4e6ee16778149811333a969a7a893d4cc110c5
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.191 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.115 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.60 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.161 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.14 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3.1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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