CVE-2026-98647 PUBLISHED

bpf: Fix divide-by-zero in btf_struct_walk()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

bpf: Fix divide-by-zero in btf_struct_walk()

When an access goes past the struct and the last member is a flexible array, btf_struct_walk() folds the offset back into a single element with (off - moff) % t->size, but never checks that the element type has a size.

BTF takes an empty struct, so this in program BTF

<pre>/* event could be empty */ struct event { </pre>

#ifdef HAVE_TIMESTAMP __u64 ts; #endif };

<pre>struct batch { int nr; struct event events[]; }; </pre>

divides by zero at prog load time. Getting there needs a PTR_TO_BTF_ID that is not MEM_ALLOC, e.g. a plain read of a local kptr stashed in a map from a sleepable program.

Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI RIP: 0010:btf_struct_walk+0x53f/0x1570 Call Trace: <TASK> btf_struct_access+0x42a/0xcd0 check_ptr_to_btf_access+0x4dc/0x1160 check_mem_access+0x3a45/0x8740 check_load_mem+0x36a/0xd10 do_check_common+0x3ef0/0xb210 bpf_check+0x6d3b/0x8580 bpf_prog_load+0xf7c/0x2720 __sys_bpf+0xa83/0x3690 __x64_sys_bpf+0xc7/0x150 x64_sys_call+0x1f3f/0x27e0 do_syscall_64+0xe5/0x610 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e </TASK>

Reject a zero-sized element type. The fixed array path in the same function already bails out on the same thing:

<pre>btf_struct_walk() ... /* skip empty array */ if (moff == mtrue_end) continue; msize /= total_nelems; </pre>

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 9c5f8a1008a121e4c6b24af211034e24b0b63081 to 1ea3820937f8022e044c41c6e95c84b02741b45f (excl.)
  • affected from 9c5f8a1008a121e4c6b24af211034e24b0b63081 to 172756f02663ad45c889c001c1a8cb4082a01a05 (excl.)
  • affected from 9c5f8a1008a121e4c6b24af211034e24b0b63081 to 934e9ba9f8d05656a48624710be67ca4dc8482e6 (excl.)
  • affected from 9c5f8a1008a121e4c6b24af211034e24b0b63081 to 63af086cb5fa6f72fd924f86bea4c2194da663a2 (excl.)
  • affected from 9c5f8a1008a121e4c6b24af211034e24b0b63081 to 8eb4cd72daad3a9ee63d2281bbdd16ce6d9406b1 (excl.)
  • affected from 9c5f8a1008a121e4c6b24af211034e24b0b63081 to b8fa56722e9c43bcd59c51fe4c7edd5f4158a11b (excl.)
  • affected from 9c5f8a1008a121e4c6b24af211034e24b0b63081 to b0b3dc66529676228cb938cbcad66920f735c223 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.8 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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