CVSS 3.1 base metricsRed raises the risk · green lowers it
Attack vector
LocalAV:L
Attack complexity
HighAC:H
Privileges required
LowPR:L
User interaction
NoneUI:N
Scope
UnchangedS:U
Confidentiality
NoneC:N
Integrity
NoneI:N
Availability
HighA:H
Updates that fix it
0 KBs
No KB listed
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Affected products
Open Source Software
1 affected product
azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
What changed
Detection template: Unknown: detection-template evidence is incomplete or retained → No Nuclei template listed
Detection template: No Nuclei template listed → Unknown: detection-template evidence is incomplete or retained
Detection template: Unknown: detection-template evidence is incomplete or retained → No Nuclei template listed
Detection template: No Nuclei template listed → Unknown: detection-template evidence is incomplete or retained
Detection template: No Nuclei template listed · Customer action: Required: apply the update → Required: follow the MSRC remediation guidance · Public disclosure: No → Unknown: not stated by MSRC · Exploitation detected: Not reported by MSRC → Unknown: not stated by MSRC
Detection template: Unknown: exploit-code evidence is incomplete or retained → No Nuclei template listed · CISA KEV: Unknown: catalog evidence is incomplete or retained → Not listed in the collected catalog
Detection template: No Nuclei template listed → Unknown: exploit-code evidence is incomplete or retained · CISA KEV: Not listed in the collected catalog → Unknown: catalog evidence is incomplete or retained
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cve-program · CVE-2026-98537
Published
workqueue: Fix NULL current_pwq deref in flush dependency check
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
workqueue: Fix NULL current_pwq deref in flush dependency check
check_flush_dependency() uses current_wq_worker() to determine whether
the caller is a workqueue worker and then dereferences worker->current_pwq
to test whether the current workqueue is WQ_MEM_RECLAIM.
current_wq_worker() only means that %current has PF_WQ_WORKER set. A
kworker can reach check_flush_dependency() while it is not executing a
work item. One such path is worker_thread() acting as the pool manager,
where create_worker() does GFP_KERNEL allocation and the allocation path
invokes the OOM notifier. In that state worker->current_pwq is NULL
because current_pwq is set only by process_one_work() and cleared again
after the work function returns.
[ 416.760634][ T375] Call trace:
[ 416.760638][ T375] check_flush_dependency+0x80/0x120 (P)
[ 416.760648][ T375] __flush_work+0x98/0x224
[ 416.760657][ T375] flush_work+0x30/0x44
[ 416.760665][ T375] ...
[ 416.760710][ T375] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x58/0xa0
[ 416.760719][ T375] out_of_memory+0xb4/0x458
[ 416.760730][ T375] __alloc_pages_may_oom+0x11c/0x1a8
[ 416.760739][ T375] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x314/0x46c
[ 416.760746][ T375] __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x110/0x1a4
[ 416.760753][ T375] new_slab+0x12c/0x484
[ 416.760759][ T375] ___slab_alloc+0x7a8/0xc7c
[ 416.760765][ T375] __slab_alloc+0x74/0xd8
[ 416.760772][ T375] __kmalloc_cache_node_noprof+0x2ac/0x304
[ 416.760779][ T375] alloc_worker+0x28/0x60
[ 416.760785][ T375] create_worker+0x4c/0x20c
[ 416.760790][ T375] worker_thread+0xe8/0x2b8
[ 416.760796][ T375] kthread+0x1a8/0x200
[ 416.760805][ T375] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Guard the WQ_MEM_RECLAIM-worker warning with worker->current_pwq. If the
kworker is not currently executing a work item, there is no current
workqueue to diagnose with that warning. The PF_MEMALLOC warning is left
unchanged so explicit reclaim context flushing a !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM target
is still reported.
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