CVE-2026-97588 PUBLISHED

s390/crypto: Map EBUSY to EIO when key conversion fails repeatedly

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 24.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

s390/crypto: Map EBUSY to EIO when key conversion fails repeatedly

When hardware persistently returns -EBUSY after exhausting retries, the error propagates to crypto_finalize_*_request(). The crypto API's completion wrapper treats -EBUSY as a queueing status and swallows it, preventing the completion callback from firing. This causes callers using crypto_wait_req() to block indefinitely.

Translate persistent -EBUSY to -EIO after retry exhaustion to ensure proper error propagation and callback invocation.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 6cd87cb5ef6ca50ae17c371482ceaab1d635e232 to f6b263679aa72ad2e534bf93db55f2589549a40e (excl.)
  • affected from 6cd87cb5ef6ca50ae17c371482ceaab1d635e232 to e267bd142664a181474112392aeaa8b3d4b12f2e (excl.)
  • affected from 6cd87cb5ef6ca50ae17c371482ceaab1d635e232 to 7a08507ea5b4d06ad8d269287913573f34467565 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc3 to * (incl.)

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