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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43115"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T07:40:40.541Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:40:05.416Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
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-2026-43115"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43115.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43115"
title: "srcu: Use irq_work to start GP in tiny SRCU"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsrcu: Use irq_work to start GP in tiny SRCU\n\nTiny SRCU's srcu_gp_start_if_needed() directly calls schedule_work(),\nwhich acquires the workqueue pool-\u003elock.\n\nThis causes a lockdep splat when call_srcu() is called with a scheduler\nlock held, due to:\n\n  call_srcu() [holding pi_lock]\n    srcu_gp_start_if_needed()\n      schedule_work() -\u003e pool-\u003elock\n\n  workqueue_init() / create_worker() [holding pool-\u003elock]\n    wake_up_process() -\u003e try_to_wake_up() -\u003e pi_lock\n\nAlso add irq_work_sync() to cleanup_srcu_struct() to prevent a\nuse-after-free if a queued irq_work fires after cleanup begins.\n\nTested with rcutorture SRCU-T and no lockdep warnings.\n\n[ Thanks to Boqun for similar fix in patch \"rcu: Use an intermediate irq_work\nto start process_srcu()\" ]"
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