# 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-2026-98058"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:24:04.190Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:54:19.435Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98058"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98058.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98058"
title: "bpf: Mark syscall helpers as sleepable"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Mark syscall helpers as sleepable\n\nbpf_sys_bpf() executes the bpf(2) syscall body, which can take mutexes,\nallocate with GFP_KERNEL, and wait for an RCU grace period.\nbpf_sys_close() reaches close_fd() and filp_close(), which can sleep as\nwell.\n\nBoth helpers are limited to BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL, whose main program is\nsleepable. That does not make every callback sleepable: a syscall program\ncan register a bpf_timer callback, and the verifier checks that callback\nin a non-sleepable context while retaining the syscall helper set.\n\nWithout .might_sleep on the prototypes, such a callback can invoke\nbpf_sys_bpf() from hrtimer softirq context and trigger a\nscheduling-while-atomic failure. bpf_sys_close() is exposed through the\nsame missing context check.\n\nSet .might_sleep on both prototypes so the existing helper-context check\nrejects them from timer callbacks and other atomic regions. Calls from the\nsleepable main body remain valid."
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