CVE-2026-90121 PUBLISHED

irqchip/gic-v5: Clear per-CPU IRS data on teardown

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

irqchip/gic-v5: Clear per-CPU IRS data on teardown

IRS affinity setup publishes an IRS pointer and IAFFID state in the per-CPU data before the remaining IRS initialization can fail. The error path then frees the IRS data without clearing that published state, leaving CPUs associated with freed memory.

On initialization failure and normal IRS teardown, clear the per-CPU IRS association by removing the stale pointer to irs_data. Also invalidate the per-CPU IAFFID state for any CPUs that were tied to the IRS before it was freed.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5cb1b6dab2def316671ea2565291a86ad58b884c to 54937af6f4a0d44c2852a203d457902f3264c906 (excl.)
  • affected from 5cb1b6dab2def316671ea2565291a86ad58b884c to 3dfc0ab5fefd052c6028c4632b1fad8bdaf7967e (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.17 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.17 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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