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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98942"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:12:14.180Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:12:14.180Z"
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-2026-98942"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98942.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98942"
title: "sched_ext: Build the cid tables privately and publish them with RCU"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched_ext: Build the cid tables privately and publish them with RCU\n\nThe cid tables are visible to the cid kfuncs while being modified: the\nfirst enable publishes the global pointers before filling them,\nops.init_cids() overrides rewrite them in place, and re-enables rebuild\nthem in place. A racing TRACING or SYSCALL program can read unfilled\nentries, including uninitialized memory in the kmalloc'd tables, or torn\ntopo updates.\n\nTie the tables' lifetimes to the root sched instead: each root enable\nbuilds a fresh set privately and publishes the per-table __rcu globals once\nthe layout is final, and root disable unpublishes and RCU-frees the set. A\nnon-NULL global is now always a fully built table which stays valid for the\nreader's RCU read section, and lookups stay two loads. Kfuncs treat NULL as\nno-mapping, also after the scheduler exits instead of reporting the stale\nlast mapping.\n\nThe cid kfuncs are available whether the root scheduler is cid-form or\ncpu-form, the latter to allow gradual migration to cids. Every root\ntherefore builds and publishes a default mapping.\n\nEvery reader must either be gated on scheduler liveness or NULL-check\ninside an RCU read section. Fix the two kfuncs that were neither:\nscx_bpf_this_cid() read the table with no RCU or preemption protection and\nscx_bpf_task_cid() relied on KF_RCU, which doesn't put a sleepable program\nin an RCU read section. The hotplug callbacks are instead serialized by\nretiring the tables inside the cpus_read_lock() section that clears\nscx_root.\n\nv2: Document why every root builds the tables (desc + cid.c comment)."
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