{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-98865","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2026-09-25T10:25:14.377Z","datePublished":"2026-10-18T15:51:26.449Z","dateUpdated":"2026-10-19T09:26:59.604Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-10-19T09:26:59.604Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched_ext: Don't run ops.dequeue() with a DSQ lock held\n\nops.dequeue() is invoked with the source user DSQ's lock still held on\nthe consume and move paths (scx_consume_dispatch_q(),\nmove_task_between_dsqs()). A BPF scheduler which locks the source user\nDSQ from ops.dequeue() - e.g. by iterating it with bpf_iter_scx_dsq -\nself-deadlocks.\n\nops.dequeue() can only call the \"any\" kfuncs and none of them can lock a\nbuiltin DSQ, so the global and bypass paths can't deadlock; however,\nall DSQ locks share one lockdep class, so iterating any user DSQ from\nops.dequeue() on those paths trips the recursion check.\n\nMove the invocation after the DSQ unlock on all three paths.\nSCX_TASK_IN_CUSTODY is cleared under the lock serializing the transfer\nso that the callback is invoked exactly once."}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["kernel/sched/ext/ext.c","kernel/sched/ext/internal.h","kernel/sched/ext/sub.c"],"versions":[{"version":"ebf1ccff79c43f860cbd2f9d6cfab9a462d0cb2d","lessThan":"fe499ae9da46e297f578d4346c4c8e338c3118db","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ebf1ccff79c43f860cbd2f9d6cfab9a462d0cb2d","lessThan":"cb86607ada73185f321baa7f9d94a08a3a40bbf5","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["kernel/sched/ext/ext.c","kernel/sched/ext/internal.h","kernel/sched/ext/sub.c"],"versions":[{"version":"7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.2.10","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.3","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"7.1","versionEndExcluding":"7.2.10"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"7.1","versionEndExcluding":"7.3"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe499ae9da46e297f578d4346c4c8e338c3118db"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb86607ada73185f321baa7f9d94a08a3a40bbf5"}],"title":"sched_ext: Don't run ops.dequeue() with a DSQ lock held","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}