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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98542"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:10.035Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:25.599Z"
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-2026-98542"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98542.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98542"
title: "cgroup/cpuset: Return PERR_NOCPUS in remote_partition_enable() on subpartitions_cpus conflict"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncgroup/cpuset: Return PERR_NOCPUS in remote_partition_enable() on subpartitions_cpus conflict\n\nWhen a remote partition is created underneath an existing local partition\nvia a non-partition (PRS_MEMBER) intermediate cgroup, update_prstate() sees\nparent-\u003epartition_root_state == PRS_MEMBER and calls\nremote_partition_enable().\n\nCommit 86888c7bd117 (\"cgroup/cpuset: Add warnings to catch inconsistency\nin exclusive CPUs\") replaced the cpumask_intersects(tmp-\u003enew_cpus,\nsubpartitions_cpus) error check in remote_partition_enable() with\nWARN_ON_ONCE(). As a result, remote_partition_enable() emits a warning\nand proceeds to enable the remote partition on CPUs that are already\nowned by the ancestor local partition in subpartitions_cpus.\n\nThis can be reproduced on Linux 7.3.0-rc3 with:\n\n  mkdir -p /tmp/cg1\n  mount -t cgroup2 none /tmp/cg1\n  echo \"+cpuset\" \u003e /tmp/cg1/cgroup.subtree_control\n\n  mkdir /tmp/cg1/A\n  echo 1 \u003e /tmp/cg1/A/cpuset.cpus\n  echo 1 \u003e /tmp/cg1/A/cpuset.cpus.exclusive\n  echo root \u003e /tmp/cg1/A/cpuset.cpus.partition\n  echo \"+cpuset\" \u003e /tmp/cg1/A/cgroup.subtree_control\n\n  mkdir /tmp/cg1/A/B\n  echo 1 \u003e /tmp/cg1/A/B/cpuset.cpus\n  echo 1 \u003e /tmp/cg1/A/B/cpuset.cpus.exclusive\n  echo \"+cpuset\" \u003e /tmp/cg1/A/B/cgroup.subtree_control\n\n  mkdir /tmp/cg1/A/B/D\n  echo 1 \u003e /tmp/cg1/A/B/D/cpuset.cpus\n  echo 1 \u003e /tmp/cg1/A/B/D/cpuset.cpus.exclusive\n  echo root \u003e /tmp/cg1/A/B/D/cpuset.cpus.partition\n\nwhich triggers:\n\n  WARNING: kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c:1594 at remote_partition_enable+0x1c1/0x300\n\nand leaves both /tmp/cg1/A and /tmp/cg1/A/B/D as active root partitions\nclaiming exclusive CPU 1.\n\nFix this by returning PERR_NOCPUS when tmp-\u003enew_cpus intersects\nsubpartitions_cpus in remote_partition_enable(), matching the error code\nused by remote_cpus_update() for the same subpartitions_cpus conflict, and\nadd a regression test case to\ntools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh.\n\nTested in QEMU on Linux 7.3.0-rc3 using the reproducer above and\ntools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh."
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