{"id":"CVE-2024-40922","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-40922","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:56:19.358Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/rsrc: don't lock while !TASK_RUNNING There is a report of io_rsrc_ref_quiesce() locking a mutex while not TASK_RUNNING, which is due to forgetting restoring the state back…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring/rsrc: don't lock while !TASK_RUNNING\n\nThere is a report of io_rsrc_ref_quiesce() locking a mutex while not\nTASK_RUNNING, which is due to forgetting restoring the state back after\nio_run_task_work_sig() and attempts to break out of the waiting loop.\n\ndo not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=1 set at\n[<ffffffff815d2494>] prepare_to_wait+0xa4/0x380\nkernel/sched/wait.c:237\nWARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 397056 at kernel/sched/core.c:10099\n__might_sleep+0x114/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:10099\nRIP: 0010:__might_sleep+0x114/0x160 kernel/sched/core.c:10099\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:585 [inline]\n __mutex_lock+0xb4/0x940 kernel/locking/mutex.c:752\n io_rsrc_ref_quiesce+0x590/0x940 io_uring/rsrc.c:253\n io_sqe_buffers_unregister+0xa2/0x340 io_uring/rsrc.c:799\n __io_uring_register io_uring/register.c:424 [inline]\n __do_sys_io_uring_register+0x5b9/0x2400 io_uring/register.c:613\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xd8/0x270 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6f/0x77","published":"2024-07-12T13:15:15.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:46:53.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-667"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00212,"percentile":0.11434,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c9df3df0c888d9ec8d11a68474a4aa04d371cff","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4429c6c77e176a4c5aa7a3bbd1632f9fc0582518","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54559642b96116b45e4b5ca7fd9f7835b8561272","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c9df3df0c888d9ec8d11a68474a4aa04d371cff","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4429c6c77e176a4c5aa7a3bbd1632f9fc0582518","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54559642b96116b45e4b5ca7fd9f7835b8561272","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40922","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}