UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-93220
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched_ext: Keep kick_sync waiting on the rq's own CPU kick_sync_wait_bal_cb() assumes it r
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched_ext: Keep kick_sync waiting on the rq's own CPU
kick_sync_wait_bal_cb() assumes it runs on the rq's CPU from the
__schedule() tail: the snapshots it compares against live in that CPU's
percpu area and the busy-wait runs with the rq lock dropped and IRQs
enabled.
However, dispatch can now drop the rq lock while the callback sits queued,
and rq lock takers in that window (the sched class change paths, the scx
task iterator) flush pending balance callbacks on release, running the
callback on a foreign CPU. Such a run compares against unrelated snapshots
and can deadlock when the executing CPU is itself a wait target.
Bail on a foreign CPU and leave the wait state alone. The wait only observes
progress that the resched kicks already guarantee and the rq's next wait
picks up the stale cpus_to_sync bits.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c736ea0fe7b4df920da6bd43a81c5eeecadcc8be
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0253dd04beb03e79477c5ef4768b11135687206
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-09-24 via NVD.
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