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CVE-2026-89991

bpf: Fix infinite loop in pcpu_freelist push with one possible CPU

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix infinite loop in pcpu_freelist push with one possible CPU __pcpu_freelist_push() can loop forever when only one CPU is possible and an NMI re-enters pcpu_freelist_push() while the interrupted context holds that CPU's freelist lock. After the current-CPU fast path fails, the fallback loop walks cpu_possible_mask while skipping the current CPU. With CONFIG_SMP=n, or when an SMP kernel is limited to one possible CPU with nr_cpus=1 or possible_cpus=1, there are no other possible CPUs to examine. The loop therefore makes no lock acquisition attempt and can never make progress. The following stack was observed on a UP system: NMI context: pcpu_freelist_push free_htab_elem htab_map_delete_elem [perf-event BPF program] __perf_event_overflow perf_event_nmi_handler exc_nmi Interrupted context: __pcpu_freelist_push pcpu_freelist_push free_htab_elem htab_map_delete_elem [raw_tp/sys_enter BPF program] __bpf_trace_sys_enter do_syscall_64 raw_res_spin_lock() detects the same-CPU recursive acquisition and returns -EDEADLK, but the subsequent fallback loop has no candidate head on a system with one possible CPU. Restore the extra fallback head that existed before the rqspinlock conversion. Keep the current-CPU fast path, then try the other possible CPUs and finally the extra head. The additional head lets a push, which cannot fail without losing a preallocated element, make progress when the only per-CPU head is held by the interrupted context. Also check the extra head from the pop path so that nodes placed there can be reused.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By Linux

  2. · 5 days later

    Published

  3. · 33 days later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

No CVSS score yet: neither the CNA, CISA nor NVD has scored this CVE. NVD status: Received.

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.21% · top 89% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Not scored.

Affected products

  • Linux · Linux

    • affected f2ac0e5d1c4dcc55d6510dcaefb8f45661a9a1fb – < a24a146ae2cb5d9faeea96d10010fcb6579abe1f
    • affected f2ac0e5d1c4dcc55d6510dcaefb8f45661a9a1fb – < a5b5e62baceff9e252c6535cf42a027d04f226cf
    • affected f2ac0e5d1c4dcc55d6510dcaefb8f45661a9a1fb – < efebf6496685c93150df5bb0794363ae70c5f58a
  • Linux · Linux

    • affected 6.15
    • unaffected < 6.15
    • unaffected 6.18.51 – ≤ 6.18.*
    • unaffected 7.2.5 – ≤ 7.2.*
    • unaffected 7.3 – ≤ *

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