CVE-2026-98865

CVE-2026-98865

published October 18, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sched_ext: Don't run ops.dequeue() with a DSQ lock held

ops.dequeue() is invoked with the source user DSQ's lock still held on

the consume and move paths (scx_consume_dispatch_q(),

move_task_between_dsqs()). A BPF scheduler which locks the source user

DSQ from ops.dequeue() - e.g. by iterating it with bpf_iter_scx_dsq -

self-deadlocks.

ops.dequeue() can only call the "any" kfuncs and none of them can lock a

builtin DSQ, so the global and bypass paths can't deadlock; however,

all DSQ locks share one lockdep class, so iterating any user DSQ from

ops.dequeue() on those paths trips the recursion check.

Move the invocation after the DSQ unlock on all three paths.

SCX_TASK_IN_CUSTODY is cleared under the lock serializing the transfer

so that the callback is invoked exactly once.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00168 · 5.9th percentile
Published
2026-10-18T20:17Z
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 OCT 03:34Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 18 OCT 15:51Z
    sched_ext: Don't run ops.dequeue() with a DSQ lock held
    cvelistv5
  • 18 OCT 15:51Z
    sched_ext: Don't run ops.dequeue() with a DSQ lock held
    cvelistv5