DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98395

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-98395
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98395.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98395
Upstream
Published
2026-10-14T14:17:50Z
Modified
2026-10-15T05:01:53Z
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/entry: Fix irq_soft_mask corruption on replayed interrupt exit When __replay_soft_interrupts() replays a pending interrupt (e.g. PACA_IRQ_DEC -> timer_interrupt), it calls the handler directly with a synthetic pt_regs. The DEFINE_INTERRUPT_HANDLER_ASYNC wrapper around each handler calls arch_interrupt_async_exit_prepare() on the way out, which calls arch_interrupt_exit_prepare() -> local_irq_disable() -> arch_local_irq_disable(), which does: irq_soft_mask_set(IRQS_DISABLED) /* 0x1 */ This unconditionally overwrites irq_soft_mask with IRQS_DISABLED (0x1), stripping the IRQS_PMI_DISABLED (0x2) bit. The result is that irq_soft_mask is 0x1 instead of IRQS_ALL_DISABLED (0x3) when the handler returns to __replay_soft_interrupts(). For a normally-taken interrupt this is harmless: the next interrupt always enters through arch_interrupt_enter_prepare() which unconditionally sets irq_soft_mask to IRQS_ALL_DISABLED. But during replay, next_interrupt() is called directly between replayed handlers without going back through arch_interrupt_enter_prepare(), so the stripped bit is never restored. next_interrupt() then fires a WARNING: WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/irq_64.c:75 WARN_ON(irq_soft_mask_return() != IRQS_ALL_DISABLED) The warning was observed early in boot on a POWER10 pseries guest during kmem_cache_init_late(), where a spinlock release triggers interrupt replay that processes a pending timer interrupt. Debugger state confirming the bug: Before timer_interrupt(&regs): irq_soft_mask = 0x3 (IRQS_ALL_DISABLED) correct irq_happened = 0x41 (HARD_DIS|REPLAYING) correct After timer_interrupt(&regs) returns: irq_soft_mask = 0x1 (IRQS_DISABLED) WRONG - PMI bit stripped irq_happened = 0x41 unchanged The fix is to replace local_irq_disable() with hard_irq_disable(). hard_irq_disable() is the right primitive here for two reasons: 1. On PPC64 (hw_irq.h:301) it calls irq_soft_mask_set_return(IRQS_ALL_DISABLED), setting the soft mask to 0x3 (both IRQS_DISABLED and IRQS_PMI_DISABLED), which preserves the PMI bit and fixes the WARNING. The additional work it does (__hard_irq_disable(), PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS |=) is redundant but safe since both are already set at this point in the exit path; the trace_hardirqs_off() inside is guarded by if (!arch_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) so it will not double-fire. 2. On PPC32 (hw_irq.h:467) hard_irq_disable() maps to arch_local_irq_disable() -> __hard_irq_disable(), which clears MSR[EE] in hardware. This is exactly correct: PPC32 has no soft-mask PACA mechanism, so the hardware disable is the right way to satisfy irqentry_exit()'s requirement. This also fixes a build error on PPC32 where irq_soft_mask_set() is only defined under CONFIG_PPC64: arch/powerpc/include/asm/entry-common.h:273: error: implicit declaration of function 'irq_soft_mask_set' Using hard_irq_disable() requires no #ifdef and is consistent with how the rest of the entry code (e.g. entry-common.h:463) handles the same PPC32/PPC64 split.

References

Affected packages

Debian:14 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.2.7-1

Affected versions

6.*
6.12.38-1
6.12.41-1
6.12.43-1~bpo12+1
6.12.43-1
6.12.48-1
6.12.57-1~bpo12+1
6.12.57-1
6.12.63-1~bpo12+1
6.12.63-1
6.12.69-1~bpo12+1
6.12.69-1
6.12.73-1~bpo12+1
6.12.73-1
6.12.74-1
6.12.74-2~bpo12+1
6.12.74-2
6.12.85-1~bpo12+1
6.12.85-1
6.12.86-1~bpo12+1
6.12.86-1
6.12.88-1~bpo12+1
6.12.88-1
6.12.90-1~bpo12+1
6.12.90-1
6.12.90-2~bpo12+1
6.12.90-2
6.12.94-1~bpo12+1
6.12.94-1
6.12.95-1~bpo12+1
6.12.95-1
6.12.96-1
6.12.100-1
6.12.101-1
6.12.105-1
6.12.107-1
6.12.111-1
6.13~rc6-1~exp1
6.13~rc7-1~exp1
6.13.2-1~exp1
6.13.3-1~exp1
6.13.4-1~exp1
6.13.5-1~exp1
6.13.6-1~exp1
6.13.7-1~exp1
6.13.8-1~exp1
6.13.9-1~exp1
6.13.10-1~exp1
6.13.11-1~exp1
6.14.3-1~exp1
6.14.5-1~exp1
6.14.6-1~exp1
6.15~rc7-1~exp1
6.15-1~exp1
6.15.1-1~exp1
6.15.2-1~exp1
6.15.3-1~exp1
6.15.4-1~exp1
6.15.5-1~exp1
6.15.6-1~exp1
6.16~rc7-1~exp1
6.16-1~exp1
6.16.1-1~exp1
6.16.3-1~bpo13+1
6.16.3-1
6.16.5-1
6.16.6-1
6.16.7-1
6.16.8-1
6.16.9-1
6.16.10-1
6.16.11-1
6.16.12-1~bpo13+1
6.16.12-1
6.16.12-2
6.17.2-1~exp1
6.17.5-1~exp1
6.17.6-1
6.17.7-1
6.17.7-2
6.17.8-1~bpo13+1
6.17.8-1
6.17.9-1
6.17.10-1
6.17.11-1
6.17.12-1
6.17.13-1~bpo13+1
6.17.13-1
6.18~rc4-1~exp1
6.18~rc4-1~exp2
6.18~rc5-1~exp1
6.18~rc6-1~exp1
6.18~rc7-1~exp1
6.18.1-1~exp1
6.18.2-1~exp1
6.18.3-1
6.18.5-1~bpo13+1
6.18.5-1
6.18.8-1
6.18.9-1~bpo13+1
6.18.9-1
6.18.10-1
6.18.12-1~bpo13+1
6.18.12-1
6.18.13-1
6.18.14-1
6.18.15-1~bpo13+1
6.18.15-1
6.19~rc4-1~exp1
6.19~rc5-1~exp1
6.19~rc6-1~exp1
6.19~rc7-1~exp1
6.19~rc8-1~exp1
6.19-1~exp1
6.19.2-1~exp1
6.19.3-1~exp1
6.19.4-1~exp1
6.19.5-1~exp1
6.19.6-1
6.19.6-2~bpo13+1
6.19.6-2
6.19.8-1~bpo13+1
6.19.8-1
6.19.10-1~bpo13+1
6.19.10-1
6.19.11-1~bpo13+1
6.19.11-1
6.19.12-1
6.19.13-1~bpo13+1
6.19.13-1
6.19.14-1~bpo13+1
6.19.14-1
7.*
7.0-1~exp1
7.0.1-1~exp1
7.0.3-1
7.0.4-1~bpo13+1
7.0.4-1
7.0.7-1~bpo13+1
7.0.7-1
7.0.9-1~bpo13+1
7.0.9-1
7.0.10-1~bpo13+1
7.0.10-1
7.0.12-1
7.0.12-2~bpo13+1
7.0.12-2
7.0.13-1~bpo13+1
7.0.13-1
7.0.14-1
7.1~rc2-1~exp1
7.1~rc3-1~exp1
7.1~rc4-1~exp1
7.1~rc4-1~exp2
7.1~rc5-1~exp1
7.1~rc7-1~exp1
7.1.1-1~exp1
7.1.2-1~exp1
7.1.3-1~bpo13+1
7.1.3-1
7.1.3-1+sunvdc
7.1.4-1
7.1.5-1
7.1.6-1
7.1.7-1~bpo13+1
7.1.7-1
7.1.8-1~bpo13+1
7.1.8-1
7.1.8-2
7.1.9-1
7.1.9-1+sparc64
7.1.10-1
7.1.12-1
7.1.13-1~bpo13+1
7.1.13-1
7.2~rc3-1~exp1
7.2~rc5-1~exp1
7.2~rc7-1~exp1
7.2.2-1~exp1
7.2.3-1~exp1
7.2.6-1~bpo13+1
7.2.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98395.json"