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CVE-2026-23113
published 2026-02-14

CVE-2026-23113: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/io-wq: check IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT inside work run loop Currently this is checked before…

PriorityP421medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.11%
1.8th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/io-wq: check IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT inside work run loop Currently this is checked before running the pending work. Normally this is quite fine, as work items either end up blocking (which will create a new worker for other items), or they complete fairly quickly. But syzbot reports an issue where io-wq takes seemingly forever to exit, and with a bit of debugging, this turns out to be because it queues a bunch of big (2GB - 4096b) reads with a /dev/msr* file. Since this file type doesn't support ->read_iter(), loop_rw_iter() ends up handling them. Each read returns 16MB of data read, which takes 20 (!!) seconds. With a bunch of these pending, processing the whole chain can take a long time. Easily longer than the syzbot uninterruptible sleep timeout of 140 seconds. This then triggers a complaint off the io-wq exit path: INFO: task syz.4.135:6326 blocked for more than 143 seconds. Not tainted syzkaller #0 Blocked by coredump. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:syz.4.135 state:D stack:26824 pid:6326 tgid:6324 ppid:5957 task_flags:0x400548 flags:0x00080000 Call Trace: context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5256 [inline] __schedule+0x1139/0x6150 kernel/sched/core.c:6863 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6945 [inline] schedule+0xe7/0x3a0 kernel/sched/core.c:6960 schedule_timeout+0x257/0x290 kernel/time/sleep_timeout.c:75 do_wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:100 [inline] __wait_for_common+0x2fc/0x4e0 kernel/sched/completion.c:121 io_wq_exit_workers io_uring/io-wq.c:1328 [inline] io_wq_put_and_exit+0x271/0x8a0 io_uring/io-wq.c:1356 io_uring_clean_tctx+0x10d/0x190 io_uring/tctx.c:203 io_uring_cancel_generic+0x69c/0x9a0 io_uring/cancel.c:651 io_uring_files_cancel include/linux/io_uring.h:19 [inline] do_exit+0x2ce/0x2bd0 kernel/exit.c:911 do_group_exit+0xd3/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1112 get_signal+0x2671/0x26d0 kernel/signal.c:3034 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x

Affected

66 ranges· showing 25
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.18.8-1 (forky)linux 6.18.8-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= c60eb049f4a19ddddcd3ee97a9c79ab8066a6a03 < 27e47500fac23d15b7dc93ff650bc4844d2581bd27e47500fac23d15b7dc93ff650bc4844d2581bd
linuxlinux>= c60eb049f4a19ddddcd3ee97a9c79ab8066a6a03 < d05d99573f81a091547b1778b9a50120f5d6c68ad05d99573f81a091547b1778b9a50120f5d6c68a
linuxlinux>= c60eb049f4a19ddddcd3ee97a9c79ab8066a6a03 < 85eb83694a91c89d9abe615d717c0053c3efa71485eb83694a91c89d9abe615d717c0053c3efa714
linuxlinux>= c60eb049f4a19ddddcd3ee97a9c79ab8066a6a03 < 2e8ca1078b14142db2ce51cbd18ff9971560046b2e8ca1078b14142db2ce51cbd18ff9971560046b
linuxlinux>= c60eb049f4a19ddddcd3ee97a9c79ab8066a6a03 < bdf0bf73006ea8af9327cdb85cfdff4c23a5f966bdf0bf73006ea8af9327cdb85cfdff4c23a5f966
linuxlinux>= c60eb049f4a19ddddcd3ee97a9c79ab8066a6a03 < 10dc959398175736e495f71c771f8641e1ca190710dc959398175736e495f71c771f8641e1ca1907
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.12.69-16.12.69-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.18.8-16.18.8-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.12.1 < 6.6.1226.6.122
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.13 < 6.18.86.18.8
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.7 < 6.12.686.12.68
msrccbl2_kernel_5.15.200.1-1_on_cbl_mariner_2.0
msrccbl2_kernel_5.15.202.1-1_on_cbl_mariner_2.0
ubuntulinux

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu7.8HIGH
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
vendor_msrc5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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