CVE-2026-98094

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0843298b159599ee7bc6d14800efdb4bc7349706 ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0843298b159599ee7bc6d14800efdb4bc7349706Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10cc145b873670438d3b105133dffdae70822db6Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a609e29efbba79f9abd68c4ec8a2bd7ecf291e7Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a323066337ed85c38decfc7f6bbf42f27605dff1Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcb48fde8003492256dee45815144aa5ed26ce7cPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0c869df2c33793c8828acaab3e4a5e0176f9f00Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2451e18826eb6a33ea51419f39bdd2eb99fa1eaPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f576944a59f31bcffff121117ebf452c5dd162b7Patch