CVE-2026-98865 PUBLISHED

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

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

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ebf1ccff79c43f860cbd2f9d6cfab9a462d0cb2d to fe499ae9da46e297f578d4346c4c8e338c3118db (excl.)
  • affected from ebf1ccff79c43f860cbd2f9d6cfab9a462d0cb2d to cb86607ada73185f321baa7f9d94a08a3a40bbf5 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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