From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>
Subject: CVE-2026-74754: scsi: core: pair EH runtime PM get and put
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:37:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026082600-CVE-2026-74754-2bb1@gregkh> (raw)
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: core: pair EH runtime PM get and put
shost->eh_noresume is currently consulted twice in one error handling
iteration: once before scsi_autopm_get_host() and once again before
scsi_autopm_put_host().
That is racy when a PM-triggered error path flips shost->eh_noresume
while the SCSI EH thread is still running.
The problem flow looks like this:
PM path
ufshcd_set_dev_pwr_mode()
shost->eh_noresume = 1
ufshcd_execute_start_stop <-- trigger EH
...
shost->eh_noresume = 0
EH path
scsi_error_handler()
if (!shost->eh_noresume)
scsi_autopm_get_host() <-- skipped
...
if (!shost->eh_noresume)
scsi_autopm_put_host() <-- executed later
In that case one EH iteration can skip autoresume on entry and still
drop a runtime PM reference on exit. That leaves an unmatched runtime PM
put and can trigger a runtime PM usage count underflow.
Fix this by making eh_noresume a regular bool so it can be accessed with
READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE(). Snapshot it once per EH iteration and use
that snapshot for both runtime PM get and put decisions.
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-74754 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 3.3 with commit ae0751ffc77e7f21629970fdab5528c573e637f8 and fixed in 7.1.10 with commit e83eed1bea142c8fe852fd53156845b88252ecd8
Issue introduced in 3.3 with commit ae0751ffc77e7f21629970fdab5528c573e637f8 and fixed in 7.2 with commit 872f486259ae0bc6b73ca4735a15d013241f73e9
Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.
Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at
https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-74754
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.
Affected files
==============
The file(s) affected by this issue are:
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c
include/scsi/scsi_host.h
Mitigation
==========
The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e83eed1bea142c8fe852fd53156845b88252ecd8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/872f486259ae0bc6b73ca4735a15d013241f73e9
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