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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39886" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-23T06:00:53.120Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:38:19.683Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39886" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39886.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39886" title: "bpf: Tell memcg to use allow_spinning=false path in bpf_timer_init()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Tell memcg to use allow_spinning=false path in bpf_timer_init()\n\nCurrently, calling bpf_map_kmalloc_node() from __bpf_async_init() can\ncause various locking issues; see the following stack trace (edited for\nstyle) as one example:\n\n...\n [10.011566] do_raw_spin_lock.cold\n [10.011570] try_to_wake_up (5) double-acquiring the same\n [10.011575] kick_pool rq_lock, causing a hardlockup\n [10.011579] __queue_work\n [10.011582] queue_work_on\n [10.011585] kernfs_notify\n [10.011589] cgroup_file_notify\n [10.011593] try_charge_memcg (4) memcg accounting raises an\n [10.011597] obj_cgroup_charge_pages MEMCG_MAX event\n [10.011599] obj_cgroup_charge_account\n [10.011600] __memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook\n [10.011603] __kmalloc_node_noprof\n...\n [10.011611] bpf_map_kmalloc_node\n [10.011612] __bpf_async_init\n [10.011615] bpf_timer_init (3) BPF calls bpf_timer_init()\n [10.011617] bpf_prog_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_fcg_runnable\n [10.011619] bpf__sched_ext_ops_runnable\n [10.011620] enqueue_task_scx (2) BPF runs with rq_lock held\n [10.011622] enqueue_task\n [10.011626] ttwu_do_activate\n [10.011629] sched_ttwu_pending (1) grabs rq_lock\n...\n\nThe above was reproduced on bpf-next (b338cf849ec8) by modifying\n./tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c to call bpf_timer_init() during\nops.runnable(), and hacking the memcg accounting code a bit to make\na bpf_timer_init() call more likely to raise an MEMCG_MAX event.\n\nWe have also run into other similar variants (both internally and on\nbpf-next), including double-acquiring cgroup_file_kn_lock, the same\nworker_pool::lock, etc.\n\nAs suggested by Shakeel, fix this by using __GFP_HIGH instead of\nGFP_ATOMIC in __bpf_async_init(), so that e.g. if try_charge_memcg()\nraises an MEMCG_MAX event, we call __memcg_memory_event() with\n@allow_spinning=false and avoid calling cgroup_file_notify() there.\n\nDepends on mm patch\n\"memcg: skip cgroup_file_notify if spinning is not allowed\":\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250905201606.66198-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev/\n\nv0 approach s/bpf_map_kmalloc_node/bpf_mem_alloc/\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250905061919.439648-1-yepeilin@google.com/\nv1 approach:\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250905234547.862249-1-yepeilin@google.com/" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b00628b1c7d595ae5b544e059c27b1f5828314b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"449682e76f32601f211816d3e2100bed87e67a4c"},{"version":"b00628b1c7d595ae5b544e059c27b1f5828314b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd1fd26bb13473c1734e3026b2b97025a0a4087b"},{"version":"b00628b1c7d595ae5b544e059c27b1f5828314b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac70cd446f83ccb25532b343919ab86eacdcd06a"},{"version":"b00628b1c7d595ae5b544e059c27b1f5828314b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d78b4473cdb08b74662355a9e8510bde09c511e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"6.6.107","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.48","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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