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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74337"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:58:28.518Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:17:29.070Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74337"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74337.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74337"
title: "bpf: Fix NMI/tracepoint re-entry deadlock on lru locks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix NMI/tracepoint re-entry deadlock on lru locks\n\nNMI and tracepoint BPF programs can re-enter the per-CPU or global\nLRU lock that bpf_lru_pop_free()/push_free() already hold on the\nsame CPU, AA-deadlocking. Lockdep reports \"inconsistent\n{INITIAL USE} -\u003e {IN-NMI}\" on &l-\u003elock (syzbot c69a0a2c816716f1e0d5)\nand \"possible recursive locking detected\" on &loc_l-\u003elock (syzbot\n18b26edb69b2e19f3b33).\n\nPrior trylock and rqspinlock based fixes (see links) were nacked\nbecause compromised on reliability.\n\nThis patch converts every LRU lock site to rqspinlock_t and adds a\nrecovery path for some failure windows to avoid node leaks.\n\nFailure recovery:\n\n - *_pop_free top-level: return NULL; prealloc_lru_pop() already\n   treats that as no-free-element (-ENOMEM).\n\n - Cross-CPU steal: skip the victim's locked loc_l, try next CPU.\n\n - Post-steal local lock fail: publish stolen node to lockless\n   per-CPU free_llist; next pop on this CPU picks it up.\n\n - push_free fail: mark node pending_free=1. __local_list_flush(),\n   __local_list_pop_pending() reclaim the node from pending_list.\n   __bpf_lru_list_shrink_inactive() reclaims the node from inactive\n   list. Nodes from active list are reclaimed by __bpf_lru_list_shrink()\n   or after __bpf_lru_list_rotate_active() demotes it to the inactive."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3a08c2fd763450a927d1130de078d6f9e74944fb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b0510cc3a4a000d4ed1a56cd96231f3d3ba94c5"},{"version":"3a08c2fd763450a927d1130de078d6f9e74944fb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"440a2fdbb40608d55a7b11f2be53592a3785131d"},{"version":"3a08c2fd763450a927d1130de078d6f9e74944fb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89edbdfc5d0308cef57b71359331de5c4ddbf763"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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