CVE-2026-98463

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

sched_ext: Derive SCX_RQ_IN_WAKEUP from the core enqueue flags

schedule_deferred_locked() skips scheduling a deferred action while SCX_RQ_IN_WAKEUP is set and relies on the task_woken_scx() call that follows a wakeup enqueue to run it. enqueue_task_scx() sets the flag from the merged enqueue flags, which include the flags stashed for a remote activation. move_remote_task_to_local_dsq() thus sets SCX_RQ_IN_WAKEUP on the destination rq when the moved task was woken up, although no task_woken_scx() follows that activation.

An IMMED insert into a busy destination requests a local reenqueue during that enqueue. The request gets linked but not scheduled and stays pending until an unrelated wakeup or preemption on that CPU runs the deferred actions. The IMMED task sits behind the running task in the meantime. If nothing runs them before the scheduler is disabled, the request outlives the scheduler and points into its freed per-cpu area, which the next scheduler dereferences from run_deferred().

Test the core enqueue flags for the wakeup bit. Only the cores wakeup path is followed by task_woken_scx().

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fdf2ceb31e8aff77451e468bc8409e10587916a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c401ae426e20e53a3398a8e79afd0964c0f5110
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df5cdc2c832ca4e8a6d774596b9005558761a403