CVE-2026-53321 PUBLISHED

io_uring/napi: cap busy_poll_to 10 msec

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 26.06.2026 Updated: 26.06.2026

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

io_uring/napi: cap busy_poll_to 10 msec

Currently there's no cap on the maximum amount of time that napi is allowed to poll if no events are found, which can lead to kernel complaints on a task being stuck as there's no conditional rescheduling done within that loop.

Just cap it to 10 msec in total, that's already way above any kind of sane value that will reap any benefits, yet low enough that it's nowhere near being able to trigger preemption complaints.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8d0c12a80cdeb80d5e0510e96d38fe551ed8e9b5 to 39767f944a8c9e696566c37ad5b20131406c4b8d (excl.)
  • affected from 8d0c12a80cdeb80d5e0510e96d38fe551ed8e9b5 to cb3af525f8dfb8930f0c123e5755fa967a12d5c1 (excl.)
  • affected from 8d0c12a80cdeb80d5e0510e96d38fe551ed8e9b5 to df8599ee18c0e5fe343ffe0b4c379636b8bb839a (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.9 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.9 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.33 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.10 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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