Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 3, 2026
CVE-2026-99263
CVE-2026-99263
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring/poll: avoid retry wakeup loss when dropping ownership
If a wakeup sets IO_POLL_RETRY_FLAG between the owning task consuming the existing instance of IO_POLL_RETRY_FLAG and the loop check of io_poll_check_events(), then we stall on processing the request until an unrelated wakeup comes along.
Using atomic_cmpxchg instead of atomic_sub_return to guarantee both the count v and poll_refs are 0 and no wake-ups are missed.
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References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/41fae2e9e1fa3bee86aee0a25ba90e59ce5024bfnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ef685b8505615729d75c875f52822238bf76ca6nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/521e8a65e9b45532295ba1082ef12be6e80c173bnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/afa407c02f3aa0fd872f86c9bf1b34502e0fa8f0nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1f6850086ac6f8b0fa44fb19aa2a468c73ee071nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb2a50d8235e4580fea9aa20f3fbe1a002c38cb1nvd
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