CVE-2026-74617 PUBLISHED

dibs: initialise dibs->lock in dibs_dev_alloc()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 22.08.2026 Updated: 22.08.2026

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

dibs: initialise dibs->lock in dibs_dev_alloc()

dibs->lock is initialised by dibs_dev_add(), but a dibs device can already take interrupts before that call: ism_probe() runs ism_dev_init(), and hence request_irq(), before it calls dibs_dev_add(). No client can have registered a dmb at that point, so no dmb interrupt can occur, but a GID event interrupt can, and ism_handle_irq() takes dibs->lock unconditionally on entry, before it inspects anything else.

Initialise the lock in dibs_dev_alloc() instead, so that it is valid as soon as a driver can publish the device to its interrupt handler.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from cc21191b584c6f7836b0f10774f8278b7cbfba10 to fe79571f40434b257d68cbfb7b3ae93a794d8a11 (excl.)
  • affected from cc21191b584c6f7836b0f10774f8278b7cbfba10 to 2926031acba100d0c18fcfaa7a2ed29609318848 (excl.)
  • affected from cc21191b584c6f7836b0f10774f8278b7cbfba10 to c27e360545373b7aee9862a5beef3b9fb3df0c25 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.18 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.18 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.45 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.9 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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