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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43385"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T14:21:32.007Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:27:43.989Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43385"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43385.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43385"
title: "net: Fix rcu_tasks stall in threaded busypoll"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: Fix rcu_tasks stall in threaded busypoll\n\nI was debugging a NIC driver when I noticed that when I enable\nthreaded busypoll, bpftrace hangs when starting up. dmesg showed:\n\n  rcu_tasks_wait_gp: rcu_tasks grace period number 85 (since boot) is 10658 jiffies old.\n  rcu_tasks_wait_gp: rcu_tasks grace period number 85 (since boot) is 40793 jiffies old.\n  rcu_tasks_wait_gp: rcu_tasks grace period number 85 (since boot) is 131273 jiffies old.\n  rcu_tasks_wait_gp: rcu_tasks grace period number 85 (since boot) is 402058 jiffies old.\n  INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:\n  00000000769f52cd: .N nvcsw: 2/2 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/64\n  task:napi/eth2-8265  state:R  running task     stack:0     pid:48300 tgid:48300 ppid:2      task_flags:0x208040 flags:0x00004000\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   ? napi_threaded_poll_loop+0x27c/0x2c0\n   ? __pfx_napi_threaded_poll+0x10/0x10\n   ? napi_threaded_poll+0x26/0x80\n   ? kthread+0xfa/0x240\n   ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n   ? ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50\n   ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n   ? ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n   \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThe cause is that in threaded busypoll, the main loop is in\nnapi_threaded_poll rather than napi_threaded_poll_loop, where the\nlatter rarely iterates more than once within its loop. For\nrcu_softirq_qs_periodic inside napi_threaded_poll_loop to report its\nqs state, the last_qs must be 100ms behind, and this can't happen\nbecause napi_threaded_poll_loop rarely iterates in threaded busypoll,\nand each time napi_threaded_poll_loop is called last_qs is reset to\nlatest jiffies.\n\nThis patch changes so that in threaded busypoll, last_qs is saved\nin the outer napi_threaded_poll, and whether busy_poll_last_qs\nis NULL indicates whether napi_threaded_poll_loop is called for\nbusypoll. This way last_qs would not reset to latest jiffies on\neach invocation of napi_threaded_poll_loop."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c18d4b190a46651726c9a952667c74d2deb33c28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52459201d0df3fdbb1d281738b7b772e2cacb49c"},{"version":"c18d4b190a46651726c9a952667c74d2deb33c28","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a86a1f7d88996085934139fa4c063b6299a2dd3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"6.19.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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