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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23342"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-25T10:27:30.285Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:04:59.186Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
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-2026-23342"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23342.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23342"
title: "bpf: Fix race in cpumap on PREEMPT_RT"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix race in cpumap on PREEMPT_RT\n\nOn PREEMPT_RT kernels, the per-CPU xdp_bulk_queue (bq) can be accessed\nconcurrently by multiple preemptible tasks on the same CPU.\n\nThe original code assumes bq_enqueue() and __cpu_map_flush() run\natomically with respect to each other on the same CPU, relying on\nlocal_bh_disable() to prevent preemption. However, on PREEMPT_RT,\nlocal_bh_disable() only calls migrate_disable() (when\nPREEMPT_RT_NEEDS_BH_LOCK is not set) and does not disable\npreemption, which allows CFS scheduling to preempt a task during\nbq_flush_to_queue(), enabling another task on the same CPU to enter\nbq_enqueue() and operate on the same per-CPU bq concurrently.\n\nThis leads to several races:\n\n1. Double __list_del_clearprev(): after bq-\u003ecount is reset in\n   bq_flush_to_queue(), a preempting task can call bq_enqueue() -\u003e\n   bq_flush_to_queue() on the same bq when bq-\u003ecount reaches\n   CPU_MAP_BULK_SIZE. Both tasks then call __list_del_clearprev()\n   on the same bq-\u003eflush_node, the second call dereferences the\n   prev pointer that was already set to NULL by the first.\n\n2. bq-\u003ecount and bq-\u003eq[] races: concurrent bq_enqueue() can corrupt\n   the packet queue while bq_flush_to_queue() is processing it.\n\nThe race between task A (__cpu_map_flush -\u003e bq_flush_to_queue) and\ntask B (bq_enqueue -\u003e bq_flush_to_queue) on the same CPU:\n\n  Task A (xdp_do_flush)          Task B (cpu_map_enqueue)\n  ----------------------         ------------------------\n  bq_flush_to_queue(bq)\n    spin_lock(&q-\u003eproducer_lock)\n    /* flush bq-\u003eq[] to ptr_ring */\n    bq-\u003ecount = 0\n    spin_unlock(&q-\u003eproducer_lock)\n                                   bq_enqueue(rcpu, xdpf)\n    \u003c-- CFS preempts Task A --\u003e      bq-\u003eq[bq-\u003ecount++] = xdpf\n                                     /* ... more enqueues until full ... */\n                                     bq_flush_to_queue(bq)\n                                       spin_lock(&q-\u003eproducer_lock)\n                                       /* flush to ptr_ring */\n                                       spin_unlock(&q-\u003eproducer_lock)\n                                       __list_del_clearprev(flush_node)\n                                         /* sets flush_node.prev = NULL */\n    \u003c-- Task A resumes --\u003e\n    __list_del_clearprev(flush_node)\n      flush_node.prev-\u003enext = ...\n      /* prev is NULL -\u003e kernel oops */\n\nFix this by adding a local_lock_t to xdp_bulk_queue and acquiring it\nin bq_enqueue() and __cpu_map_flush(). These paths already run under\nlocal_bh_disable(), so use local_lock_nested_bh() which on non-RT is\na pure annotation with no overhead, and on PREEMPT_RT provides a\nper-CPU sleeping lock that serializes access to the bq.\n\nTo reproduce, insert an mdelay(100) between bq-\u003ecount = 0 and\n__list_del_clearprev() in bq_flush_to_queue(), then run reproducer\nprovided by syzkaller."
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