CVE-2026-68334 PUBLISHED

rxrpc: fix io_thread race in rxrpc_wake_up_io_thread()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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

rxrpc: fix io_thread race in rxrpc_wake_up_io_thread()

rxrpc_wake_up_io_thread() checks local->io_thread before waking it, but then reloads the pointer for wake_up_process().

local->io_thread is cleared with WRITE_ONCE() when the I/O thread exits, so the second load can see NULL even if the first load did not.

Take a READ_ONCE() snapshot and use it for both the NULL check and the wake_up_process() call, as rxrpc_encap_rcv() already does.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5800b1cf3fd8ccab752a101865be1e76dac33142 to c9165e199f56997f2f2deb5d3ec2dfab98dfa288 (excl.)
  • affected from 5800b1cf3fd8ccab752a101865be1e76dac33142 to 092b42cf3f6013eec43607ecbcad674723649514 (excl.)
  • affected from 5800b1cf3fd8ccab752a101865be1e76dac33142 to 745fb794c3e933c023af9dbb5876a5e16ad2dc71 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc5 to * (incl.)

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