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CVE-2026-53314

padata: Put CPU offline callback in ONLINE section to allow failure

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Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.20, 5.5, 5.6
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: padata: Put CPU offline callback in ONLINE section to allow failure syzbot reported the following warning: DEAD callback error for CPU1 WARNING: kernel/cpu.c:1463 at _cpu_down+0x759/0x1020 kernel/cpu.c:1463, CPU#0: syz.0.1960/14614 at commit 4ae12d8bd9a8 ("Merge tag 'kbuild-fixes-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux") which tglx traced to padata_cpu_dead() given it's the only sub-CPUHP_TEARDOWN_CPU callback that returns an error. Failure isn't allowed in hotplug states before CPUHP_TEARDOWN_CPU so move the CPU offline callback to the ONLINE section where failure is possible.

Timeline

  1. CVE published

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 4.19.202 · fixed in 4.20; From 5.4.22 · fixed in 5.5; From 5.5.6 · fixed in 5.6

  • Linux Linux

    5.6

References 6

git.kernel.org