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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-31667" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:45:15.937Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:56:02.976Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" 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-2026-31667" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31667.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31667" title: "Input: uinput - fix circular locking dependency with ff-core" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nInput: uinput - fix circular locking dependency with ff-core\n\nA lockdep circular locking dependency warning can be triggered\nreproducibly when using a force-feedback gamepad with uinput (for\nexample, playing ELDEN RING under Wine with a Flydigi Vader 5\ncontroller):\n\n ff-\u003emutex -\u003e udev-\u003emutex -\u003e input_mutex -\u003e dev-\u003emutex -\u003e ff-\u003emutex\n\nThe cycle is caused by four lock acquisition paths:\n\n1. ff upload: input_ff_upload() holds ff-\u003emutex and calls\n uinput_dev_upload_effect() -\u003e uinput_request_submit() -\u003e\n uinput_request_send(), which acquires udev-\u003emutex.\n\n2. device create: uinput_ioctl_handler() holds udev-\u003emutex and calls\n uinput_create_device() -\u003e input_register_device(), which acquires\n input_mutex.\n\n3. device register: input_register_device() holds input_mutex and\n calls kbd_connect() -\u003e input_register_handle(), which acquires\n dev-\u003emutex.\n\n4. evdev release: evdev_release() calls input_flush_device() under\n dev-\u003emutex, which calls input_ff_flush() acquiring ff-\u003emutex.\n\nFix this by introducing a new state_lock spinlock to protect\nudev-\u003estate and udev-\u003edev access in uinput_request_send() instead of\nacquiring udev-\u003emutex. The function only needs to atomically check\ndevice state and queue an input event into the ring buffer via\nuinput_dev_event() -- both operations are safe under a spinlock\n(ktime_get_ts64() and wake_up_interruptible() do not sleep). This\nbreaks the ff-\u003emutex -\u003e udev-\u003emutex link since a spinlock is a leaf in\nthe lock ordering and cannot form cycles with mutexes.\n\nTo keep state transitions visible to uinput_request_send(), protect\nwrites to udev-\u003estate in uinput_create_device() and\nuinput_destroy_device() with the same state_lock spinlock.\n\nAdditionally, move init_completion(&request-\u003edone) from\nuinput_request_send() to uinput_request_submit() before\nuinput_request_reserve_slot(). Once the slot is allocated,\nuinput_flush_requests() may call complete() on it at any time from\nthe destroy path, so the completion must be initialised before the\nrequest becomes visible.\n\nLock ordering after the fix:\n\n ff-\u003emutex -\u003e state_lock (spinlock, leaf)\n udev-\u003emutex -\u003e state_lock (spinlock, leaf)\n udev-\u003emutex -\u003e input_mutex -\u003e dev-\u003emutex -\u003e ff-\u003emutex (no back-edge)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ff462551235d8d7d843a005950bc90924fcedede","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"71a9729f412e2c692a35c542e14b706fb342927f"},{"version":"ff462551235d8d7d843a005950bc90924fcedede","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"271ee71a1917b89f6d73ec82dd091c33d92ee617"},{"version":"ff462551235d8d7d843a005950bc90924fcedede","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"974f7b138c3a96dd5cd53d1b33409cd7b2229dc6"},{"version":"ff462551235d8d7d843a005950bc90924fcedede","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"546c18a14924eb521fe168d916d7ce28f1e13c1d"},{"version":"ff462551235d8d7d843a005950bc90924fcedede","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3d6c9c053c9c605651508569230ead633b13f76"},{"version":"ff462551235d8d7d843a005950bc90924fcedede","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e09dfbb4f5d20ee111f92325a00f85778a5f328"},{"version":"ff462551235d8d7d843a005950bc90924fcedede","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1534661043c434b81cfde26b97a2fb2460329cf0"},{"version":"ff462551235d8d7d843a005950bc90924fcedede","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4cda78d6f8bf2b700529f2fbccb994c3e826d7c2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.19"},{"version":"5.10.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.169","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.135","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.82","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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