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.
CVE-2026-98865
NONE
Updated Oct 18, 2026
Linux
CVE Details
CVE ID
CVE-2026-98865
Published Date
Oct 18, 2026
Vendor
Linux
Severity
NONE
Impact
Minimal impact
Source
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