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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-45904" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:17:12.504Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-27T12:17:12.504Z" 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-2026-45904" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45904.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45904" title: "powerpc/eeh: fix recursive pci_lock_rescan_remove locking in EEH event handling" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/eeh: fix recursive pci_lock_rescan_remove locking in EEH event handling\n\nThe recent commit 1010b4c012b0 (\"powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device\nhotplug safe\") restructured the EEH driver to improve synchronization\nwith the PCI hotplug layer.\n\nHowever, it inadvertently moved pci_lock_rescan_remove() outside its\nintended scope in eeh_handle_normal_event(), leading to broken PCI\nerror reporting and improper EEH event triggering. Specifically,\neeh_handle_normal_event() acquired pci_lock_rescan_remove() before\ncalling eeh_pe_bus_get(), but eeh_pe_bus_get() itself attempts to\nacquire the same lock internally, causing nested locking and disrupting\nnormal EEH event handling paths.\n\nThis patch adds a boolean parameter do_lock to _eeh_pe_bus_get(),\nwith two public wrappers:\n eeh_pe_bus_get() with locking enabled.\n eeh_pe_bus_get_nolock() that skips locking.\n\nCallers that already hold pci_lock_rescan_remove() now use\neeh_pe_bus_get_nolock() to avoid recursive lock acquisition.\n\nAdditionally, pci_lock_rescan_remove() calls are restored to the correct\nposition—after eeh_pe_bus_get() and immediately before iterating affected\nPEs and devices. This ensures EEH-triggered PCI removes occur under proper\nbus rescan locking without recursive lock contention.\n\nThe eeh_pe_loc_get() function has been split into two functions:\n eeh_pe_loc_get(struct eeh_pe *pe) which retrieves the loc for given PE.\n eeh_pe_loc_get_bus(struct pci_bus *bus) which retrieves the location\n code for given bus.\n\nThis resolves lockdep warnings such as:\n\u003csnip\u003e\n[ 84.964298] [ T928] ============================================\n[ 84.964304] [ T928] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected\n[ 84.964311] [ T928] 6.18.0-rc3 #51 Not tainted\n[ 84.964315] [ T928] --------------------------------------------\n[ 84.964320] [ T928] eehd/928 is trying to acquire lock:\n[ 84.964324] [ T928] c000000003b29d58 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40\n[ 84.964342] [ T928]\n but task is already holding lock:\n[ 84.964347] [ T928] c000000003b29d58 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40\n[ 84.964357] [ T928]\n other info that might help us debug this:\n[ 84.964363] [ T928] Possible unsafe locking scenario:\n\n[ 84.964367] [ T928] CPU0\n[ 84.964370] [ T928] ----\n[ 84.964373] [ T928] lock(pci_rescan_remove_lock);\n[ 84.964378] [ T928] lock(pci_rescan_remove_lock);\n[ 84.964383] [ T928]\n *** DEADLOCK ***\n\n[ 84.964388] [ T928] May be due to missing lock nesting notation\n\n[ 84.964393] [ T928] 1 lock held by eehd/928:\n[ 84.964397] [ T928] #0: c000000003b29d58 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40\n[ 84.964408] [ T928]\n stack backtrace:\n[ 84.964414] [ T928] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 928 Comm: eehd Not tainted 6.18.0-rc3 #51 VOLUNTARY\n[ 84.964417] [ T928] Hardware name: IBM,9080-HEX POWER10 (architected) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NH1060_022) hv:phyp pSeries\n[ 84.964419] [ T928] Call Trace:\n[ 84.964420] [ T928] [c0000011a7157990] [c000000001705de4] dump_stack_lvl+0xc8/0x130 (unreliable)\n[ 84.964424] [ T928] [c0000011a71579d0] [c0000000002f66e0] print_deadlock_bug+0x430/0x440\n[ 84.964428] [ T928] [c0000011a7157a70] [c0000000002fd0c0] __lock_acquire+0x1530/0x2d80\n[ 84.964431] [ T928] [c0000011a7157ba0] [c0000000002fea54] lock_acquire+0x144/0x410\n[ 84.964433] [ T928] [c0000011a7157cb0] [c0000011a7157cb0] __mutex_lock+0xf4/0x1050\n[ 84.964436] [ T928] [c0000011a7157e00] [c000000000de21d8] pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40\n[ 84.964439] [ T928] [c0000011a7157e20] [c00000000004ed98] eeh_pe_bus_get+0x48/0xc0\n[ 84.964442] [ T928] [c0000011a7157e50] [c00000\n---truncated---" affected: 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