# 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-2026-97948"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:57.757Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:11:14.563Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97948"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97948.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97948"
title: "powerpc/eeh: Fix recursive locking on devices without EEH sensitive driver"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/eeh: Fix recursive locking on devices without EEH sensitive driver\n\nThe commit 1010b4c012b0 (\"powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug\nsafe\") refactored the EEH code such that the pci_rescan_remove_lock is\nheld at the beginning of eeh_handle_normal_event() and the\neeh_reset_device() is called with that lock being held. Looks like the\ncommit missed to remove the existing lock/unlock inside eeh_rmv_device()\nwhich is no longer necessary. This is causing the eehd to hang on the\nlock which it actually holds when that code path is taken.\n\n[\u003c0\u003e] 0xc00000011c78f870\n[\u003c0\u003e] __switch_to+0xfc/0x1a0\n[\u003c0\u003e] pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x30/0x44\n[\u003c0\u003e] eeh_rmv_device+0x290/0x2e0\n[\u003c0\u003e] eeh_pe_dev_traverse+0x80/0x130\n[\u003c0\u003e] eeh_reset_device+0xcc/0x23c\n[\u003c0\u003e] eeh_handle_normal_event+0x830/0xa80\n[\u003c0\u003e] eeh_event_handler+0xf8/0x190\n[\u003c0\u003e] kthread+0x194/0x1b0\n[\u003c0\u003e] start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18\n\nThe issue is seen for cases where the errors are detected on the PHB\ndirectly AND|OR for devices where the driver error_detected() returns\nPCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET, and driver being not EEH sensitive(i.e no\nerror handlers like slot_reset(), resume() etc defined)."
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