CVE-2026-64428

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

gpio: sch: use raw_spinlock_t in the irq startup path

sch_irq_unmask() enables the GPIO IRQ and then updates the controller state through sch_irq_mask_unmask(), which takes sch->lock with spin_lock_irqsave(). The callback can be reached from irq_startup() while setting up a requested IRQ. That path is not sleepable, but on PREEMPT_RT a regular spinlock_t becomes a sleeping lock.

This issue was found by our static analysis tool and then manually reviewed against the current tree.

The grounded PoC kept the request_threaded_irq() -> __setup_irq() -> irq_startup() -> sch_irq_unmask() -> sch_irq_mask_unmask() carrier and used the original spin_lock_irqsave(&sch->lock) edge. Lockdep reported:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context hardirqs last disabled at … __setup_irq.constprop.0 … [vuln_msv] sch_rt_spin_lock_irqsave+0x1c/0x30 [vuln_msv] sch_irq_mask_unmask.constprop.0+0x31/0x70 [vuln_msv] __setup_irq.constprop.0+0xd/0x30 [vuln_msv]

Convert the SCH controller lock to raw_spinlock_t. The same lock is also used by the GPIO direction and value callbacks, but those critical sections only update MMIO-backed GPIO registers and do not contain sleepable operations. Keeping this register lock non-sleeping is therefore appropriate for the irqchip callbacks and does not change the GPIO-side locking contract.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/286533cb14a3c8a8bd39ff64ea2fc8e1aa0f638b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b1aa05ec27eeccc889ecaa3f2d9baa9f453e50d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41cad91a09d69e8fff4e936db29b1054b4e9f9f7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4508366ab7dd0c2917a51a9c2e23cc1b9d35157a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f03a15cc73c83740fc355ee22b336492d17b4da
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a550256d68bbdfa0903ab1c4595c04a6815493a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a235cec779bb39ec8f961a935b28a2ce278c6c64