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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98644"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:20:15.380Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:23:13.963Z"
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-2026-98644"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98644.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98644"
title: "bpf: Avoid soft lockup in __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Avoid soft lockup in __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch()\n\n__htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch() has no rescheduling point. The\nbatch count bounds how many entries are copied out, not how many\nbuckets are visited, so one BPF_MAP_LOOKUP_BATCH call can walk the\nmap end to end. The empty-bucket fast path is worse: it stays inside\na single rcu_read_lock() / bpf_disable_instrumentation() section for\nany run of consecutive empty buckets.\n\nThat holds up on small maps, but it falls apart at scale. On a\n144-CPU arm64 host running a CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE kernel, periodic\nBPF_MAP_LOOKUP_BATCH calls against an LRU hash map with 16,777,216\nbuckets held a CPU inside the batch op for 77+ seconds and triggered\nthe soft lockup watchdog.\n\nCommit 75134f16e7dd (\"bpf: Add schedule points in batch ops\") fixed this\nsame problem in the generic batch ops, but not in this htab-native path,\nwhich every htab-based hash map variant uses for its lookup[_and_delete]\nbatch ops.\n\nComplete that fix here. Leave the critical section after 64 consecutive\nempty buckets, call cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), and resume at the saved\nbucket cursor. No locks are held at that point, and resuming from the\ncursor is already the function's behavior for non-empty buckets. Add the\nsame call to the per-bucket loop after copy_to_user(), where every lock\nhas been dropped. cond_resched_rcu() is not enough here: sleeping with\nbpf_prog_active elevated makes tracing programs on that CPU silently\nskip their invocations.\n\nPlain cond_resched() is not enough either. It is a no-op under PREEMPT\nand PREEMPT_LAZY, the only models arm64 and x86 have offered since\ncommit 7dadeaa6e851 (\"sched: Further restrict the preemption modes\").\nIt is also never a Tasks RCU quiescent state, in any model: the\nreschedule counts as a preemption. The walking task stays a holdout and\nstalls every synchronize_rcu_tasks() caller, ftrace and BPF trampoline\nteardown included, until the syscall returns [1].\ncond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() is the usual tool for that [2]. It reports\nthe quiescent state at each yield and still reschedules as\ncond_resched() does on PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels."
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