CVE-2026-98147 PUBLISHED

printk: Don't WARN on kthread_run failure.

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

printk: Don't WARN on kthread_run failure.

Since __kthread_create_on_node() returns -EINTR upon SIGKILL, we should not use WARN_ON() in order to catch kthread_run() failure.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 76f258bf3f2aae570209319944703a92ac64e29e to 4e676279798148382497d0e38c0bd51115e64be1 (excl.)
  • affected from 76f258bf3f2aae570209319944703a92ac64e29e to 72dd0ec09e7cc98ed58ddeac26575e5d1ab8a93d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc3 to * (incl.)

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