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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89519"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:44:01.858Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:48:10.533Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89519"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89519.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89519"
title: "sched_ext: Replace SCX_RQ_BAL_KEEP with a dispatch verdict return"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched_ext: Replace SCX_RQ_BAL_KEEP with a dispatch verdict return\n\nSCX_RQ_BAL_KEEP tells the pick to keep running the previous task, a leftover\nfrom when balancing and picking were separate operations. An rq-level flag\nonly works while dispatches and picks pair up one to one, which core\nscheduling breaks: selections interleave through dispatch's lock drops and a\npick can consume a stale flag, keeping a task that has since been dequeued.\nFixing core scheduling support requires the decision to travel with the\ndispatch that made it. Make scx_dispatch_sched() and balance_one() return an\nexplicit verdict instead and drop the flag's plumbing from the tools autogen\nenum headers.\n\nAlso factor the pick-side invocation, its follow-up queueing and the\npost-dispatch checks out of do_pick_task_scx() into dispatch_pick(). No\nfunctional changes intended.\n\nv2: Drop the SCX_RQ_BAL_KEEP plumbing from the tools autogen enum headers\n    as well (Andrea)."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4c95380701f58b8112f0b891de8d160e4199e19d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f1d3bfe54430f8d54e0530a27f2ecbf8466576e"},{"version":"4c95380701f58b8112f0b891de8d160e4199e19d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ffaab58d217581cb75353168f8812a16e10463fc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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