CVE-2026-90304 PUBLISHED

ARM: 9484/1: enable interrupts when unhandled user faults are triggered

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

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

ARM: 9484/1: enable interrupts when unhandled user faults are triggered

PREEMPT_RT requires interrupts to be enabled when sending signals.

When do_DataAbort()/do_PrefetchAbort() triggers unhandled user faults, that is inf->fn() return a non-zero value, and the interrupts are not enabled within the hook function, force_sig_fault() will be called with interrupts disabled.

This can be triggered by user programs executing the bkpt instruction, with kernel config CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=n.

Enable interrupts in do_DataAbort()/do_PrefetchAbort() when unhandled user faults are triggered to fix the issue.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from c6e61c06d6061750597e79c598acb5dead44c35b to 8d7cbc6df9632d334b21c4be66ccdde76a08fb13 (excl.)
  • affected from c6e61c06d6061750597e79c598acb5dead44c35b to e79ca91165d4fd18549c536abdb86101e889052f (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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