# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74331"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:58:24.420Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:17:22.413Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74331"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74331.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74331"
title: "firmware_loader: Fix recursive lock in device_cache_fw_images()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfirmware_loader: Fix recursive lock in device_cache_fw_images()\n\nA recursive locking deadlock can occur in the firmware loader's power\nmanagement notification handler.\n\nDuring system suspend or hibernation preparation, fw_pm_notify() calls\ndevice_cache_fw_images(). This function acquires fw_lock to set the\nfirmware cache state to FW_LOADER_START_CACHE and then iterates over all\ndevices using dpm_for_each_dev() while still holding the lock.\n\nFor each device, dev_cache_fw_image() schedules asynchronous work to cache\nthe firmware. If memory allocation for the async work entry fails (e.g., in\nout-of-memory conditions), async_schedule_node_domain() falls back to\nexecuting the work function synchronously in the current thread.\n\nThe synchronous execution path (__async_dev_cache_fw_image() -\u003e\ncache_firmware() -\u003e request_firmware() -\u003e assign_fw()) attempts to acquire\nfw_lock again. Since the current thread already holds fw_lock, this results\nin a recursive locking deadlock.\n\nFix this by releasing fw_lock immediately after updating the cache state\nand before calling dpm_for_each_dev(). The lock is only needed to protect\nthe state update. Concurrent firmware requests will correctly see the\nFW_LOADER_START_CACHE state and use the piggyback mechanism, which is\nindependently protected by its own fwc-\u003ename_lock."
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