# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80920"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-09T16:13:17.023Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:47:14.401Z"
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-2026-80920"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80920.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80920"
title: "io_uring: defer eventfd signaling when queued from a wakeup handler"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring: defer eventfd signaling when queued from a wakeup handler\n\nio_req_local_work_add() signals the CQ ring eventfd inline when it is the\none to push the first entry onto -\u003ework_list. For DEFER_TASKRUN rings that\nadd is frequently done from a waitqueue wakeup handler, where an\narbitrary waitqueue lock is held.\n\neventfd_signal_mask() only refuses to recurse when current-\u003ein_eventfd\nis set, but that bit is set by eventfd_signal_mask() itself. If the wake\nchain starts somewhere else, signal goes out inline and can feed back\ninto epoll.\n\nAdd IOU_F_TWQ_IN_WAKE, set it on the task_work add done from the three\nwaitqueue callbacks, and use it to force io_eventfd_signal() down the\nexisting call_rcu_hurry() deferral instead of signaling inline."
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