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CVE-2026-99130

Linux: io_uring/cancel: don't spin on local work the task can't run

Linux LinuxOperating systems
CVSS
NoneNot scored
ExploitationNo known exploitationNot in CISA KEV, which does not prove it is unexploitedCISA KEV
Exploit odds (EPSS)No scoreNo FIRST EPSS score in this snapshot yet
Fixed in94d13387b96e50a4288f7bbdfe401189246a11a1Also 3005459e0ddfcef0f555b6e81f672f2c49a1c0aaCVE List
Published28 Oct 2026Updated 28 Oct 2026CVE List

What fixes it

  • 94d13387b96e50a4288f7bbdfe401189246a11a1LinuxCVE List
  • 3005459e0ddfcef0f555b6e81f672f2c49a1c0aaLinuxCVE List

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring/cancel: don't spin on local work the task can't run

io_uring_cancel_generic() refuses to sleep while any ring on the exiting task's tctx has local work pending. It assumes the task is that ring's submitter and that the next io_uring_try_cancel_requests() pass will run the work. This does not hold for a ring that was still IORING_SETUP_R_DISABLED when the task got its tctx node from io_uring_create() or io_ringfd_register(). The submitter is set later by IORING_REGISTER_ENABLE_RINGS, possibly from another task, and only the submitter may run local work on an IORING_SETUP_DEFER_TASKRUN ring. To the exiting task the work stays pending forever, the loop never reaches schedule(), and the task trips the WARN_ON_ONCE() once and then spins in do_exit().

An unprivileged user can set this up at will by creating a disabled ring, having a child enable it and stop, posting to the ring with IORING_OP_MSG_RING and exiting with a request in flight that only the child can complete. The exiting thread burns a CPU until the child runs or dies, and with panic_on_warn set the WARN panics the kernel.

Fix by skipping the sleep only when io_allowed_defer_tw_run() allows the task to run the work. This is reasonable since work it cannot run cannot complete any of its requests either, so nothing is lost by sleeping. Drop the WARN_ON_ONCE() since handing a disabled ring to another thread is a supported scenario, not a bug state.

Text from CVE List

Affected versions 8

  • Linuxaffected: 360cd42c4e95ff06d8d7b0a54e42236c7e7c187f before 94d13387b96e50a4288f7bbdfe401189246a11a1CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 360cd42c4e95ff06d8d7b0a54e42236c7e7c187f before 3005459e0ddfcef0f555b6e81f672f2c49a1c0aaCVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 360cd42c4e95ff06d8d7b0a54e42236c7e7c187f before fddcf4c5321b3ea5f72166c3fd36a9d1c34f80c7CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 6.4CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: all versions before 6.4CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 6.18.59 through 6.18.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.2.13 through 7.2.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List

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