# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80626"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:48:44.182Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-28T06:48:44.182Z"
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-2026-80626"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80626.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80626"
title: "powerpc/perf: fix preempt count underflow in fsl_emb_pmu_del"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/perf: fix preempt count underflow in fsl_emb_pmu_del\n\nfsl_emb_pmu_del() unconditionally calls put_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events) at\nthe 'out:' label, but only calls the matching get_cpu_var() after the\n'i \u003c 0' early-return check. When event-\u003ehw.idx is negative the\nfunction jumps to 'out:' without having taken get_cpu_var(), and the\ntrailing put_cpu_var() then issues an unmatched preempt_enable(),\nunderflowing preempt_count.\n\nOn a CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernel preempt_count would underflow and\neventually present as a 'scheduling while atomic' BUG.\n\nMove put_cpu_var() to pair with get_cpu_var() so the percpu access is\ncorrectly bracketed and the 'out:' label only handles perf_pmu_enable."
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