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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98530" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:17:48.670Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:13.045Z" 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-2026-98530" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98530.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98530" title: "kprobes: Fix permanent hang when flushing the kprobe optimizer" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkprobes: Fix permanent hang when flushing the kprobe optimizer\n\nWriting 0 to /proc/sys/debug/kprobes-optimization while a kprobe is\njump-optimized never returns. The writer sleeps in D state forever with\nkprobe_sysctl_mutex held, so any later read or write of that sysctl\nhangs as well. For example, with vfs_read+9 as an optimizable address\nin this build:\n\n # cd /sys/kernel/tracing\n # echo 'p:myprobe vfs_read+9' \u003e\u003e kprobe_events\n # echo 1 \u003e events/kprobes/myprobe/enable\n # # wait until /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list shows [OPTIMIZED]\n # echo 0 \u003e /proc/sys/debug/kprobes-optimization\n\n INFO: task sh:246 blocked for more than 10 seconds.\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __schedule+0x1176/0x4f70\n schedule+0xdc/0x2c0\n schedule_timeout+0x17b/0x260\n wait_for_completion+0x173/0x3c0\n wait_for_kprobe_optimizer_locked+0xbc/0x130\n proc_kprobes_optimization_handler+0x156/0x1b0\n proc_sys_call_handler+0x324/0x490\n vfs_write+0x52d/0xfe0\n ksys_write+0xff/0x200\n do_syscall_64+0x106/0x630\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n ...\n INFO: task cat:265 is blocked on a mutex likely owned by task sh:246.\n\nwait_for_kprobe_optimizer_locked() reinitializes optimizer_completion,\nasks the optimizer thread to flush and sleeps in wait_for_completion().\nThe thread drains the (un)optimizing lists, but calls complete() only\nif completion_done() is true, i.e. if the completion is already done,\nwhich never happens while someone waits. disarm_all_kprobes() and\nkprobe_trace_self_tests_init() wait the same way.\n\nCalling complete() unconditionally would not be enough: the waiter\ndrops kprobe_mutex while it sleeps, and nothing else serializes the\nsysctl handler against the debugfs \"enabled\" file. A second flusher\nthat still finds the lists non-empty, e.g. because a disabled probe is\nqueued for unoptimizing, reinitializes the completion under the first:\n\n sysctl write debugfs \"enabled\" write\n unoptimize_all_kprobes()\n wait_for_kprobe_optimizer_locked()\n init_completion(c)\n mutex_unlock(&kprobe_mutex)\n wait_for_completion(c)\n disarm_all_kprobes()\n wait_for_kprobe_optimizer_locked()\n init_completion(c)\n // c-\u003ewait is reset, the first\n // waiter is off the queue\n mutex_unlock(&kprobe_mutex)\n wait_for_completion(c)\n kprobe_optimizer()\n complete(c)\n // wakes the debugfs writer only\n\nwhere c is &optimizer_completion. Lining up the two writes during an\noptimizer pass loses the sysctl writer this way.\n\nReplace the completion with a counter of optimizer passes, bumped at the\nend of each pass and signalled with wake_up_var_locked(), both under\nkprobe_mutex. A flusher samples the count and waits with\nwait_var_event_mutex(), which drops kprobe_mutex only while sleeping, so\na new count means a whole pass ran in the meantime. Nothing is\nreinitialized, so several flushers can sleep in the wait at once." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"73c12f209462d1712c5f55f3021a1b65b2e084c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f05a01fc7d4f731b4c100d2aef1e85ad77728862"},{"version":"73c12f209462d1712c5f55f3021a1b65b2e084c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5bfa9f1a9dcb6ecb607adbc1c0226605c972935b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.0"},{"version":"7.2.9","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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