# CVE-2026-43293: media: chips-media: wave5: Fix kthread worker destruction in polling mode

> A race condition in the wave5 media driver during module removal in polling mode can trigger kernel warnings, potentially leading to system instability.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 8 May 2026
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2026-43293, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43293, GHSA-jr3h-fqrg-28f2, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43293

## What is CVE-2026-43293?

CVE-2026-43293 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 8 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

media: chips-media: wave5: Fix kthread worker destruction in polling mode

Fix the cleanup order in polling mode (irq < 0) to prevent kernel warnings
during module removal. Cancel the hrtimer before destroying the kthread
worker to ensure work queues are empty.

In polling mode, the driver uses hrtimer to periodically trigger
wave5_vpu_timer_callback() which queues work via kthread_queue_work().
The kthread_destroy_worker() function validates that both work queues
are empty with WARN_ON(!list_empty(&worker->work_list)) and
WARN_ON(!list_empty(&worker->delayed_work_list)).

The original code called kthread_destroy_worker() before hrtimer_cancel(),
creating a race condition where the timer could fire during worker
destruction and queue new work, triggering the WARN_ON.

This causes the following warning on every module unload in polling mode:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1034 at kernel/kthread.c:1430
    kthread_destroy_worker+0x84/0x98
  Modules linked in: wave5(-) rpmsg_ctrl rpmsg_char ...
  Call trace:
   kthread_destroy_worker+0x84/0x98
   wave5_vpu_remove+0xc8/0xe0 [wave5]
   platform_remove+0x30/0x58
  ...
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-43293?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-43293?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2026-43293 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43293 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-43293 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-43293 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 8 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43293 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43293/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43293/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43293
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43293
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-43293

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43293/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.