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SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT

CVE-2026-99263

3 November 2026

If a wakeup sets IO_POLL_RETRY_FLAG between the owning task consuming the existing instance of IO_POLL_RETRY_FLAG and the loop check of io_poll_check_events(), then we stall on processing the request until an unrelated wakeup comes along.

Using atomic_cmpxchg instead of atomic_sub_return to guarantee both the count v and poll_refs are 0 and no wake-ups are missed.

Introduced

6.1 a26a35e9019fd70bf3cf647dcfdae87abc7bacea

Fixed releases

6.1.191 d1f6850086ac6f8b0fa44fb19aa2a468c73ee071

6.12.115 4ef685b8505615729d75c875f52822238bf76ca6

6.18.60 afa407c02f3aa0fd872f86c9bf1b34502e0fa8f0

6.6.161 41fae2e9e1fa3bee86aee0a25ba90e59ce5024bf

7.2.14 eb2a50d8235e4580fea9aa20f3fbe1a002c38cb1

7.3.1 521e8a65e9b45532295ba1082ef12be6e80c173b

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