{"id":"CVE-2026-98644","revision":"715e81fbb0ae4789aa30d3931013e12e","records":[{"revision":"715e81fbb0ae4789aa30d3931013e12e","observedAt":"2026-10-23T15:48:27.903+00:00","statement":{"source":"cve-program","id":"CVE-2026-98644","aliases":[],"title":"bpf: Avoid soft lockup in __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch()","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Avoid soft lockup in __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch()\n\n__htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch() has no rescheduling point. The\nbatch count bounds how many entries are copied out, not how many\nbuckets are visited, so one BPF_MAP_LOOKUP_BATCH call can walk the\nmap end to end. The empty-bucket fast path is worse: it stays inside\na single rcu_read_lock() / bpf_disable_instrumentation() section for\nany run of consecutive empty buckets.\n\nThat holds up on small maps, but it falls apart at scale. On a\n144-CPU arm64 host running a CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE kernel, periodic\nBPF_MAP_LOOKUP_BATCH calls against an LRU hash map with 16,777,216\nbuckets held a CPU inside the batch op for 77+ seconds and triggered\nthe soft lockup watchdog.\n\nCommit 75134f16e7dd (\"bpf: Add schedule points in batch ops\") fixed this\nsame problem in the generic batch ops, but not in this htab-native path,\nwhich every htab-based hash map variant uses for its lookup[_and_delete]\nbatch ops.\n\nComplete that fix here. Leave the critical section after 64 consecutive\nempty buckets, call cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), and resume at the saved\nbucket cursor. No locks are held at that point, and resuming from the\ncursor is already the function's behavior for non-empty buckets. Add the\nsame call to the per-bucket loop after copy_to_user(), where every lock\nhas been dropped. cond_resched_rcu() is not enough here: sleeping with\nbpf_prog_active elevated makes tracing programs on that CPU silently\nskip their invocations.\n\nPlain cond_resched() is not enough either. It is a no-op under PREEMPT\nand PREEMPT_LAZY, the only models arm64 and x86 have offered since\ncommit 7dadeaa6e851 (\"sched: Further restrict the preemption modes\").\nIt is also never a Tasks RCU quiescent state, in any model: the\nreschedule counts as a preemption. The walking task stays a holdout and\nstalls every synchronize_rcu_tasks() caller, ftrace and BPF trampoline\nteardown included, until the syscall returns [1].\ncond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() is the usual tool for that [2]. It reports\nthe quiescent state at each yield and still reschedules as\ncond_resched() does on PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels.","state":0,"publishedAt":"2026-10-18T15:20:15.38+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-19T09:23:13.963+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"Vendor product","name":"Linux","ranges":[],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":"{\n                    \"product\": \"Linux\",\n                    \"vendor\": \"Linux\",\n                    \"defaultStatus\": \"unaffected\",\n                    \"repo\": \"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git\",\n                    \"programFiles\": [\n                        \"kernel/bpf/hashtab.c\"\n                    ],\n                    \"versions\": [\n                        {\n                            \"version\": \"057996380a42bb64ccc04383cfa9c0ace4ea11f0\",\n                            \"lessThan\": \"5c8b1869cb99a32a962388848cd19604fb41263e\",\n                            \"status\": 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