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FKIE_CVE-2026-89902

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-16 11:16 - Updated: 2026-09-16 15:18

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: Avoid preempt count underflow without probe LoongArch uses break 11 for the breakpoint placed after an instruction that Kprobes executes out of line. Since userspace can issue the same break instruction, do_bp() can reach kprobe_singlestep_handler() when there is no current probe. The handler actually returns false in this case, but it first calls preempt_enable_no_resched(). The corresponding preempt_disable() is done by kprobe_breakpoint_handler() on a real Kprobe hit, so it has not run here. As a result, an ordinary userspace breakpoint (code 11) underflows the current task's preempt count. This also makes in_interrupt() return true until the task schedules. One visible consequence is the socket cgroup attribution: cgroup_sk_alloc() treats the allocation as interrupt context and assigns the socket to the root cgroup. A socket opened from the SIGTRAP handler can then avoid a BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE policy attached to the task's own cgroup. Return as soon as kprobe_running() reports no active probe. The same check has appeared in [PATCH v10 2/4] of the original LoongArch Kprobes series, but was dropped before the feature reached mainline.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72ce4b24676e8b3b75376c4c559dd81c1ac52d5a
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76395109a051b53860faaec96522ef08ae9e8e27
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1cb727fa27c2d9c7859729cd90db7bc0f46957f
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4357ebeee63cb8da1446fc936573a34e68b0f71
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff40e597d5d98c0c45a4d09df8177202fac9520e

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CVE-2026-89902 (GCVE-0-2026-89902)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-16 10:32 – Updated: 2026-09-16 14:39

Title

LoongArch: Avoid preempt count underflow without probe

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff40e597d5d98c0c4…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1cb727fa27c2d9c7…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76395109a051b5386…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4357ebeee63cb8da…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72ce4b24676e8b3b7…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6d4cc40fb5f58147defc6c0e9d86e6232fe31616 , < ff40e597d5d98c0c45a4d09df8177202fac9520e (git) Affected: 6d4cc40fb5f58147defc6c0e9d86e6232fe31616 , < a1cb727fa27c2d9c7859729cd90db7bc0f46957f (git) Affected: 6d4cc40fb5f58147defc6c0e9d86e6232fe31616 , < 76395109a051b53860faaec96522ef08ae9e8e27 (git) Affected: 6d4cc40fb5f58147defc6c0e9d86e6232fe31616 , < c4357ebeee63cb8da1446fc936573a34e68b0f71 (git) Affected: 6d4cc40fb5f58147defc6c0e9d86e6232fe31616 , < 72ce4b24676e8b3b75376c4c559dd81c1ac52d5a (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.3 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.3 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.157 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.110 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.51 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.5 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3-rc2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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