Service interruption via sleepable IRQ spinlock
Published Jul 25, 2026 · Updated Jul 25, 2026
Improper locking in the SCH GPIO IRQ path in affected Linux Kernel releases allows attackers to interrupt service during IRQ startup. During the non-sleepable path, sch_irq_unmask() reaches sch_irq_mask_unmask(), which acquires a regular spinlock that becomes sleepable under PREEMPT_RT. Triggering requires a PREEMPT_RT kernel and the SCH GPIO IRQ path; published sources do not establish an unprivileged user-space route.
Summary
What happened
Improper locking in the SCH GPIO IRQ path in affected Linux Kernel releases allows attackers to interrupt service during IRQ startup. During the non-sleepable path, sch_irq_unmask() reaches sch_irq_mask_unmask(), which acquires a regular spinlock that becomes sleepable under PREEMPT_RT. Triggering requires a PREEMPT_RT kernel and the SCH GPIO IRQ path; published sources do not establish an unprivileged user-space route.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-64428
- Published
- Jul 25, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 25, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux Kernel
- Classifications
- T1499.004
- Attack vector
- Unavailable
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
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- Jul 25, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 25, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.13
- Affected versionversion=7a81638485c1a62a87b4c391ecc9c651a4a9dc19 <286533cb14a3c8a8bd39ff64ea2fc8e1aa0f638b
- Affected versionversion=7a81638485c1a62a87b4c391ecc9c651a4a9dc19 <3b1aa05ec27eeccc889ecaa3f2d9baa9f453e50d
- Affected versionversion=7a81638485c1a62a87b4c391ecc9c651a4a9dc19 <41cad91a09d69e8fff4e936db29b1054b4e9f9f7
- Affected versionversion=7a81638485c1a62a87b4c391ecc9c651a4a9dc19 <4508366ab7dd0c2917a51a9c2e23cc1b9d35157a
- Affected versionversion=7a81638485c1a62a87b4c391ecc9c651a4a9dc19 <4f03a15cc73c83740fc355ee22b336492d17b4da
- Affected versionversion=7a81638485c1a62a87b4c391ecc9c651a4a9dc19 <7a550256d68bbdfa0903ab1c4595c04a6815493a
- Affected versionversion=7a81638485c1a62a87b4c391ecc9c651a4a9dc19 <a235cec779bb39ec8f961a935b28a2ce278c6c64
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