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

Type: advisorySources: OSV

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.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
6.18.57, 7.2.6
CVEs
CVE-2026-90121
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
4 Nov 2026, 23:50 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

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

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 Sept 2026, 16:06 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2026-90121

Kernel

Fixed versions: 6.18.57, 7.2.6

Complete source record
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