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CVE-2026-31480

Updated on 22 Apr 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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

tracing: Fix potential deadlock in cpu hotplug with osnoise

The following sequence may leads deadlock in cpu hotplug:

task1 task2 task3

mutex_lock(&interface_lock)

[CPU GOING OFFLINE]

cpus_write_lock(); osnoise_cpu_die(); kthread_stop(task3); wait_for_completion();

osnoise_sleep(); mutex_lock(&interface_lock);

cpus_read_lock();

[DEAD LOCK]

Fix by swap the order of cpus_read_lock() and mutex_lock(&interface_lock).

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+8 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU Released
28 kernels
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els20
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els21
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els23
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els22
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els14
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els18
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els16
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els15
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els17
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els19
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els24
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els25
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els26
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els27
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els28
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els29
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els30
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els31
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els32
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els35
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els34
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els1
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els2
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els3
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els4
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els5
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els6
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.11.els7
AlmaLinux 9.6 ESU Released
10 kernels
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els1
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els2
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els3
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els4
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els5
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els6
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.1.els7
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els1
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els2
  • 5.14.0-570.62.1.el9_6.tuxcare.5.els3
Amazon Linux 2023 Released
49 kernels
  • 6.1.79-99.164.amzn2023
  • 6.1.84-99.169.amzn2023
  • 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023
  • 6.1.90-99.173.amzn2023
  • 6.1.87-99.174.amzn2023
  • 6.1.91-99.172.amzn2023
  • 6.1.97-104.177.amzn2023
  • 6.1.94-99.176.amzn2023
  • 6.1.102-108.177.amzn2023
  • 6.1.106-116.188.amzn2023
  • 6.1.102-111.182.amzn2023
  • 6.1.79-99.167.amzn2023
  • 6.1.92-99.174.amzn2023
  • 6.1.96-102.177.amzn2023
  • 6.1.109-118.189.amzn2023
  • 6.1.112-122.189.amzn2023
  • 6.1.111-120.187.amzn2023
  • 6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023
  • 6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023
  • 6.1.124-134.200.amzn2023
  • 6.1.127-135.201.amzn2023
  • 6.1.128-136.201.amzn2023
  • 6.1.129-138.220.amzn2023
  • 6.1.130-139.222.amzn2023
  • 6.1.131-143.221.amzn2023
  • 6.1.132-147.221.amzn2023
  • 6.1.134-150.224.amzn2023
  • 6.1.112-124.190.amzn2023
  • 6.1.140-154.222.amzn2023
  • 6.1.141-155.222.amzn2023
  • 6.1.134-152.225.amzn2023
  • 6.1.144-170.251.amzn2023
  • 6.1.147-172.266.amzn2023
  • 6.1.148-173.267.amzn2023
  • 6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023
  • 6.1.141-165.249.amzn2023
  • 6.1.141-167.250.amzn2023
  • 6.1.147-172.259.amzn2023
  • 6.1.153-175.280.amzn2023
  • 6.1.155-176.282.amzn2023
  • 6.1.156-177.286.amzn2023
  • 6.1.158-178.288.amzn2023
  • 6.1.159-181.297.amzn2023
  • 6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023
  • 6.1.158-180.294.amzn2023
  • 6.1.159-182.297.amzn2023
  • 6.1.161-183.298.amzn2023
  • 6.1.164-196.303.amzn2023
  • 6.1.166-197.305.amzn2023
Debian 12 Will Not Fix
35 kernels
  • 6.1.38-1
  • 6.1.38-2
  • 6.1.38-4
  • 6.1.52-1
  • 6.1.55-1
  • 6.1.64-1
  • 6.1.66-1
  • 6.1.69-1
  • 6.1.76-1
  • 6.1.27-1
  • 6.1.67-1
  • 6.1.85-1
  • 6.1.90-1
  • 6.1.94-1
  • 6.1.99-1
  • 6.1.106-3
  • 6.1.112-1
  • 6.1.115-1
  • 6.1.119-1
  • 6.1.123-1
  • 6.1.128-1
  • 6.1.124-1
  • 6.1.129-1
  • 6.1.133-1
  • 6.1.135-1
  • 6.1.137-1
  • 6.1.140-1
  • 6.1.139-1
  • 6.1.147-1
  • 6.1.148-1
  • 6.1.153-1
  • 6.1.158-1
  • 6.1.159-1
  • 6.1.162-1
  • 6.1.164-1
Debian 13 Planned —
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned —
Ubuntu 24.04 Planned —