# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-50079"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-29T00:50:21.508Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:45:01.302Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50079"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50079.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50079"
title: "io_uring/sqpoll: ensure task state is TASK_RUNNING when running task_work"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring/sqpoll: ensure task state is TASK_RUNNING when running task_work\n\nWhen the sqpoll is exiting and cancels pending work items, it may need\nto run task_work. If this happens from within io_uring_cancel_generic(),\nthen it may be under waiting for the io_uring_task waitqueue. This\nresults in the below splat from the scheduler, as the ring mutex may be\nattempted grabbed while in a TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state.\n\nEnsure that the task state is set appropriately for that, just like what\nis done for the other cases in io_run_task_work().\n\ndo not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=1 set at [\u003c0000000029387fd2\u003e] prepare_to_wait+0x88/0x2fc\nWARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 59939 at kernel/sched/core.c:8561 __might_sleep+0xf4/0x140\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 59939 Comm: iou-sqp-59938 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3-00113-g8d020023b155 #7456\nHardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)\npstate: 61400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\npc : __might_sleep+0xf4/0x140\nlr : __might_sleep+0xf4/0x140\nsp : ffff80008c5e7830\nx29: ffff80008c5e7830 x28: ffff0000d93088c0 x27: ffff60001c2d7230\nx26: dfff800000000000 x25: ffff0000e16b9180 x24: ffff80008c5e7a50\nx23: 1ffff000118bcf4a x22: ffff0000e16b9180 x21: ffff0000e16b9180\nx20: 000000000000011b x19: ffff80008310fac0 x18: 1ffff000118bcd90\nx17: 30303c5b20746120 x16: 74657320313d6574 x15: 0720072007200720\nx14: 0720072007200720 x13: 0720072007200720 x12: ffff600036c64f0b\nx11: 1fffe00036c64f0a x10: ffff600036c64f0a x9 : dfff800000000000\nx8 : 00009fffc939b0f6 x7 : ffff0001b6327853 x6 : 0000000000000001\nx5 : ffff0001b6327850 x4 : ffff600036c64f0b x3 : ffff8000803c35bc\nx2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff0000e16b9180\nCall trace:\n __might_sleep+0xf4/0x140\n mutex_lock+0x84/0x124\n io_handle_tw_list+0xf4/0x260\n tctx_task_work_run+0x94/0x340\n io_run_task_work+0x1ec/0x3c0\n io_uring_cancel_generic+0x364/0x524\n io_sq_thread+0x820/0x124c\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"af5d68f8892f8ee8f137648b79ceb2abc153a19b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"887ba598d9cfb537bdb3dfd95f087ff8a08cb74d"},{"version":"af5d68f8892f8ee8f137648b79ceb2abc153a19b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f7033aa4089fbaf7a33995f0f2ee6c9d7b9ca1b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.11.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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