CVE-2026-99050 — gpio: mpsse: fix race when arming the IRQ poll worker

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gpio: mpsse: fix race when arming the IRQ poll worker

gpio_mpsse_irq_enable() arms the poll worker before publishing it: schedule_work() runs before the worker is added to priv->workers. If gpio_mpsse_disconnect() walks the list in that window it misses the worker, and once disconnect returns, the USB core frees mpsse_priv while the orphaned gpio_mpsse_poll() work keeps accessing it, causing a use-after-free.

Fix this by publishing and arming the worker in one irq_spin critical section. Teardown walks the same list under irq_spin, so a worker found on the list is guaranteed to be armed, and cancel_work_sync() handles it whether it is queued or running.

A worker armed after the disconnect walk would still be missed, so also set a new priv->dying flag under irq_spin before the teardown walk, and check it in the same critical section, freeing it via kfree_rcu() instead when the device is going away, since kfree() would be called with the IRQ core's raw spinlock held and may sleep on PREEMPT_RT. schedule_work() is safe to call with irq_spin held, and the next probe gets a fresh mpsse_priv, so the flag never needs to be cleared.

This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.

USN-9018-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-ibm, linux-oem-7.0, linux-oracle vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: linux-aws, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: linux-ibm, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: linux-oem-7.0, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: linux-oracle

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - Network file systems library; - Stream parser; - ARM64 architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - S390 architecture; - User-Mode Linux (UML); - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Android drivers; - Bluetooth drivers; - TPM device driver; - DPLL subsystem; - EDAC drivers; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - IIO subsystem; - IIO ADC drivers; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device (Miscellaneous) drivers; - Multiple devices driver; - MemoryStick subsystem; - MMC subsystem; - MTD block device drivers; - Network drivers; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Mellanox network drivers; - STMicroelectronics network drivers; - Ethernet team driver; - MediaTek network drivers; - NVME drivers; - Device tree and open firmware driver; - Power sequencing drivers; - Voltage and Current Regulator drivers; - Real Time Clock drivers; - SCSI subsystem; - Greybus lights staging drivers; - Trusted Execution Environment drivers; - Thunderbolt and USB4 drivers; - TTY drivers; - Cadence USB3 driver; - USB Device Class drivers; - USB core drivers; - DesignWare USB2 driver; - DesignWare USB3 driver; - USB Gadget drivers; - USB Serial drivers; - USB Mass Storage drivers; - USB Type-C suppor…

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CVE-2026-99050 — gpio: mpsse: fix race when arming the IRQ poll worker

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