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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98072" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:24:12.675Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:13:21.939Z" 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-2026-98072" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98072.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98072" title: "net/rds: use wq_has_sleeper() in release_in_xmit()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/rds: use wq_has_sleeper() in release_in_xmit()\n\nrelease_in_xmit() clears RDS_IN_XMIT with clear_bit_unlock() and then\nchecks waitqueue_active() to decide whether anyone needs waking.\nclear_bit_unlock() is only a release operation: it orders the\ncritical section before the bit clear, but does not order the\nsubsequent plain load of the wait queue head after it. The waiter\nside does the mirror image - it adds itself to the wait queue and\nthen tests the bit. That is the classic store-buffering pattern: the\nreleasing CPU can read the wait queue as empty while the waiting CPU\nstill reads the bit as set, so the sleeper is never woken.\n\nThe waiters are rds_conn_shutdown() and rds_tcp_reset_callbacks(),\nboth in uninterruptible wait_event() with no timeout. A lost wake-up\nstrands the shutdown worker on its single-threaded workqueue until\nsome other sender releases the bit again - and on a connection that\nis being torn down precisely because it failed, there may never be\nanother sender.\n\nThe barrier used to be there: release_in_xmit() did clear_bit()\nfollowed by smp_mb__after_atomic() until commit 1422f28826d2 (\"rds:\nintroduce acquire/release ordering in acquire/release_in_xmit()\")\nfolded both into clear_bit_unlock(), which strengthened the lock\nhand-off but silently dropped the full barrier the wake-up check\ndepends on. The refill counterpart, release_refill() in\nnet/rds/ib_recv.c, still carries its smp_mb__after_atomic() for\nexactly this reason.\n\nUse wq_has_sleeper(), which is waitqueue_active() preceded by the\nrequired full barrier." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1e1e4316fcaeb9cd6bc56c91127e88625237dd44","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f552364d97cf4005c7a58f11c9f79e14e269865"},{"version":"8c378cc522aedd5fa5aa53486b43a4d552fbbd5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a94b1dfc82454c5bc068e71c25393af674daf63b"},{"version":"52287ed416a10bc3d3e204a3186d9509ab3ee634","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a806ed1eb46850ca4159a18b2a8c4b70f0c1341"},{"version":"4a4dffdff9ea6201665f5d0a5042011d09bd527f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d401934b7edb3ccb07d982dabadd04c45ee307c"},{"version":"1422f28826d2a0c11e5240b3e951c9e214d8656e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed7ee0cd0e136d02f87f13181b1a89880463c7e9"},{"version":"1422f28826d2a0c11e5240b3e951c9e214d8656e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a269795107f45adc95975a83324f8fef40bec4ce"},{"version":"1422f28826d2a0c11e5240b3e951c9e214d8656e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3764627b30a283e611e652c4a2bb8cdc74a75a99"},{"version":"1422f28826d2a0c11e5240b3e951c9e214d8656e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d0c8b7073913011459cf968cbbadd341e166bc3"},{"version":"bec6c4ce1169a565c58c347d5d0ac22e46d507d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"f781fb5177cdfd9a6c98cd94e30275457c6461ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"917135195200e20e5244b9c3f2bb40f3d5e02510","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"d792459a6e2ae21c7f5107babd63e52e4c5ab93a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.214","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.271"},{"version":"5.15.153","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.222"},{"version":"6.1.83","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.189"},{"version":"6.6.23","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.158"},{"version":"4.19.311","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.273","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"6.7.11","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.8.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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