# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43319"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T13:26:14.231Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-01T16:15:35.875Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43319"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43319.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43319"
title: "spi: spidev: fix lock inversion between spi_lock and buf_lock"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nspi: spidev: fix lock inversion between spi_lock and buf_lock\n\nThe spidev driver previously used two mutexes, spi_lock and buf_lock,\nbut acquired them in different orders depending on the code path:\n\n  write()/read(): buf_lock -\u003e spi_lock\n  ioctl():       spi_lock -\u003e buf_lock\n\nThis AB-BA locking pattern triggers lockdep warnings and can\ncause real deadlocks:\n\n  WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected\n  spidev_ioctl() -\u003e mutex_lock(&spidev-\u003ebuf_lock)\n  spidev_sync_write() -\u003e mutex_lock(&spidev-\u003espi_lock)\n  *** DEADLOCK ***\n\nThe issue is reproducible with a simple userspace program that\nperforms write() and SPI_IOC_WR_MAX_SPEED_HZ ioctl() calls from\nseparate threads on the same spidev file descriptor.\n\nFix this by simplifying the locking model and removing the lock\ninversion entirely. spidev_sync() no longer performs any locking,\nand all callers serialize access using spi_lock.\n\nbuf_lock is removed since its functionality is fully covered by\nspi_lock, eliminating the possibility of lock ordering issues.\n\nThis removes the lock inversion and prevents deadlocks without\nchanging userspace ABI or behaviour."
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