# CVE-2026-43311: soc/tegra: pmc: Fix unsafe generic_handle_irq() call

> An unsafe function call during system resume on Tegra platforms can trigger a kernel warning, potentially leading to system instability or denial of service.

- **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:** 21 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-86199, BELL-CVE-2026-43311, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43311, GHSA-5vxj-rjpg-8mhr, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2026-43311, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-43311, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-43311, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43311

## What is CVE-2026-43311?

CVE-2026-43311 is a medium-severity denial of service 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:

soc/tegra: pmc: Fix unsafe generic_handle_irq() call

Currently, when resuming from system suspend on Tegra platforms,
the following warning is observed:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 14459 at kernel/irq/irqdesc.c:666
Call trace:
 handle_irq_desc+0x20/0x58 (P)
 tegra186_pmc_wake_syscore_resume+0xe4/0x15c
 syscore_resume+0x3c/0xb8
 suspend_devices_and_enter+0x510/0x540
 pm_suspend+0x16c/0x1d8

The warning occurs because generic_handle_irq() is being called from
a non-interrupt context which is considered as unsafe.

Fix this warning by deferring generic_handle_irq() call to an IRQ work
which gets executed in hard IRQ context where generic_handle_irq()
can be called safely.

When PREEMPT_RT kernels are used, regular IRQ work (initialized with
init_irq_work) is deferred to run in per-CPU kthreads in preemptible
context rather than hard IRQ context. Hence, use the IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD
variant so that with PREEMPT_RT kernels, the IRQ work is processed in
hardirq context instead of being deferred to a thread which is required
for calling generic_handle_irq().

On non-PREEMPT_RT kernels, both init_irq_work() and IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD()
execute in IRQ context, so this change has no functional impact for
standard kernel configurations.

[treding@nvidia.com: miscellaneous cleanups]

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-43311?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-43311?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2026-43311 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43311 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-43311 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-43311 is a medium-severity denial of service 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-2026-43311 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-2026-43311/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43311/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43311
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43311
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-43311

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43311/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.