In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
srcu: Don't queue workqueue handlers to never-online CPUs
While an srcu_struct structure is in the midst of switching from CPU-0 to all-CPUs state, it can attempt to invoke callbacks for CPUs that have never been online. Worse yet, it can attempt in invoke callbacks for CPUs that never will be online, even including imaginary CPUs not in cpu_possible_mask. This can cause hangs on s390, which is not set up to deal with workqueue handlers being scheduled on such CPUs. This commit therefore causes Tree SRCU to refrain from queueing workqueue handlers on CPUs that have not yet (and might never) come online.
Because callbacks are not invoked on CPUs that have not been online, it is an error to invoke call_srcu(), synchronize_srcu(), or synchronize_srcu_expedited() on a CPU that is not yet fully online. However, it turns out to be less code to redirect the callbacks from too-early invocations of call_srcu() than to warn about such invocations. This commit therefore also redirects callbacks queued on not-yet-fully-online CPUs to the boot CPU.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
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| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade linux-image-nvidia-bos-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-nvidia-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1011-gcpUpgrade linux-image-oracle-64kUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1016-nvidia-64kUpgrade linux-image-gcpUpgrade linux-image-nvidia-64kUpgrade linux-image-oracle-7.0Upgrade linux-image-azureUpgrade linux-image-nvidia-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-awsUpgrade linux-image-nvidia-64k-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-oracle-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-nvidia-bos-64kUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1011-oracleUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-2016-nvidia-bosUpgrade linux-image-raspi-realtimeUpgrade linux-image-aws-64kUpgrade linux-image-raspi-7.0Upgrade linux-image-azure-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1009-awsUpgrade linux-image-raspi-realtime-7.0Upgrade linux-image-gcp-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1011-gcp-64kUpgrade linux-image-nvidiaUpgrade linux-image-nvidia-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1015-raspi-realtimeUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1009-aws-64kUpgrade linux-image-raspiUpgrade linux-image-aws-7.0Upgrade linux-image-gcp-64kUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1014-azureUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1011-oracle-64kUpgrade linux-image-gcp-7.0Upgrade linux-image-nvidia-bos-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1016-nvidiaUpgrade linux-image-aws-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-2016-nvidia-bos-64kUpgrade linux-image-nvidia-bosUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1015-raspiUpgrade linux-image-oracle | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 |
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