CVE-2026-45957

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: Fix rcureadunlock deadloop due to softirq Commit 5f5fa7ea89dc "rcu: Don't use negative nesting depth in rcureadunlock" removes the recursion-protection code from rcureadunlock. Therefore, we could invoke the deadloop in...

CVE-2026-45957

CVE-2026-45957 documents a Linux kernel RCU bug: missing recursion protection in rcu_read_unlock() can cause a deadloop when softirq handling runs under ftrace, as shown in the call stack involving raise_softirq_irqoff() and rcu_read_unlock_special(). The issue was fixed by commits that adjust ir...