CVE-2026-98752NVD
Vulnerability Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: port: fix tty_port_tty_vhangup() race
Drivers rely on tty_port_tty_vhangup() to synchronously hang up their
ports before tearing down resources as part of deregistration (e.g. on
physical disconnect).
If tty_port_tty_vhangup() races with another hangup it may however
return before the port has been shut down. This is in turn can lead to
use-after-free and NULL-pointer dereferences in racing ioctls (including
a synchronous hangup) and in processing of racing asynchronous hangups
(carrier loss).
Add the missing serialisation to tty_port_tty_vhangup() and
tty_port_hangup() so that the former does not return until the port has
been shut down also when there is a racing hangup.
Note that serial core does not use tty_port_hangup(), but it already
holds the port mutex when clearing port->tty and shutting down the port
in uart_hangup().
tty: port: fix tty_port_tty_vhangup() race
Drivers rely on tty_port_tty_vhangup() to synchronously hang up their
ports before tearing down resources as part of deregistration (e.g. on
physical disconnect).
If tty_port_tty_vhangup() races with another hangup it may however
return before the port has been shut down. This is in turn can lead to
use-after-free and NULL-pointer dereferences in racing ioctls (including
a synchronous hangup) and in processing of racing asynchronous hangups
(carrier loss).
Add the missing serialisation to tty_port_tty_vhangup() and
tty_port_hangup() so that the former does not return until the port has
been shut down also when there is a racing hangup.
Note that serial core does not use tty_port_hangup(), but it already
holds the port mutex when clearing port->tty and shutting down the port
in uart_hangup().
Affected & Patched Versions
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External References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/017b18addbe8dcace1a569a00d40ed1ba1e03f4c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e16ae1464a4f435425c6f6ff1e293db850a624c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b7be3b9b857947e9c1338d4919d4ebd3b75e907
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d1a984afc3ca477dab3e51ec806671d443ad524
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a776d603d1e1bba2837295817b0a39394707b10d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a78910f6d78cc1415cbc9b4fb621c3f4f6945be2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b48820de8c1a596c5b99775524dfce73c6576c5d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce220b4cdf62f73db0c1940f968eb33b9899fdd0