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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53163"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:38:44.108Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-24T14:33:48.972Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53163"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53163.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53163"
title: "locking/rtmutex: Skip remove_waiter() when waiter is not enqueued"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlocking/rtmutex: Skip remove_waiter() when waiter is not enqueued\n\nsyzbot triggered the following splat in remove_waiter() via\nFUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI:\n\n  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000a88-0x0000000000000a8f]\n   class_raw_spinlock_constructor\n   remove_waiter+0x159/0x1200 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1561\n   rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock+0x103/0x120\n   futex_requeue+0x10e4/0x20d0\n   __x64_sys_futex+0x34f/0x4d0\n\ntask_blocks_on_rt_mutex() does not arm the waiter upon deadlock detection,\nleaving waiter-\u003etask nil, where 3bfdc63936dd (\"rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead\nof current in remove_waiter()\") made this fatal.\n\nFurthermore, rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() should not be calling into remove_waiter()\nupon a successfully grabbing the rtmutex. 1a1fb985f2e2 (\"futex: Handle early deadlock\nreturn correctly\"), moved the remove_waiter() out of __rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock()\n(where 'ret' was only ever 0 or \u003c 0) into the wrapper. Tighten this check to\naccount for try_to_take_rt_mutex()."
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