CVE-2026-97948

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-97948

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

powerpc/eeh: Fix recursive locking on devices without EEH sensitive driver

The commit 1010b4c012b0 ("powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug

safe") refactored the EEH code such that the pci_rescan_remove_lock is

held at the beginning of eeh_handle_normal_event() and the

eeh_reset_device() is called with that lock being held. Looks like the

commit missed to remove the existing lock/unlock inside eeh_rmv_device()

which is no longer necessary. This is causing the eehd to hang on the

lock which it actually holds when that code path is taken.

[<0>] 0xc00000011c78f870

[<0>] __switch_to+0xfc/0x1a0

[<0>] pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x30/0x44

[<0>] eeh_rmv_device+0x290/0x2e0

[<0>] eeh_pe_dev_traverse+0x80/0x130

[<0>] eeh_reset_device+0xcc/0x23c

[<0>] eeh_handle_normal_event+0x830/0xa80

[<0>] eeh_event_handler+0xf8/0x190

[<0>] kthread+0x194/0x1b0

[<0>] start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18

The issue is seen for cases where the errors are detected on the PHB

directly AND|OR for devices where the driver error_detected() returns

PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET, and driver being not EEH sensitive(i.e no

error handlers like slot_reset(), resume() etc defined). (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References