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FKIE_CVE-2026-98942

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-10-23 13:17 - Updated: 2026-10-26 07:17

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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched_ext: Build the cid tables privately and publish them with RCU The cid tables are visible to the cid kfuncs while being modified: the first enable publishes the global pointers before filling them, ops.init_cids() overrides rewrite them in place, and re-enables rebuild them in place. A racing TRACING or SYSCALL program can read unfilled entries, including uninitialized memory in the kmalloc'd tables, or torn topo updates. Tie the tables' lifetimes to the root sched instead: each root enable builds a fresh set privately and publishes the per-table __rcu globals once the layout is final, and root disable unpublishes and RCU-frees the set. A non-NULL global is now always a fully built table which stays valid for the reader's RCU read section, and lookups stay two loads. Kfuncs treat NULL as no-mapping, also after the scheduler exits instead of reporting the stale last mapping. The cid kfuncs are available whether the root scheduler is cid-form or cpu-form, the latter to allow gradual migration to cids. Every root therefore builds and publishes a default mapping. Every reader must either be gated on scheduler liveness or NULL-check inside an RCU read section. Fix the two kfuncs that were neither: scx_bpf_this_cid() read the table with no RCU or preemption protection and scx_bpf_task_cid() relied on KF_RCU, which doesn't put a sleepable program in an RCU read section. The hotplug callbacks are instead serialized by retiring the tables inside the cpus_read_lock() section that clears scx_root. v2: Document why every root builds the tables (desc + cid.c comment).

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e1a74369bdbc357d3d9713734418d914a981553
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a773220d39ba993dfe5d135f8b610be10794d5d

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    }
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  "id": "CVE-2026-98942",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-26T07:17:18.007",
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CVE-2026-98942 (GCVE-0-2026-98942)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-23 12:12 – Updated: 2026-10-26 06:56

Title

sched_ext: Build the cid tables privately and publish them with RCU

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7067 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e1a74369bdbc357d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a773220d39ba993d…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: e9b55af47edf6e60c9a47b5604c3e15c5162ec86 , < 0e1a74369bdbc357d3d9713734418d914a981553 (git) Affected: e9b55af47edf6e60c9a47b5604c3e15c5162ec86 , < 3a773220d39ba993dfe5d135f8b610be10794d5d (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 7.2 Unaffected: 0 , < 7.2 (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.10 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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