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CVE-2026-53106 (GCVE-0-2026-53106)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-24 16:30 – Updated: 2026-06-24 16:30

Title

bpf: Do not allow deleting local storage in NMI

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Do not allow deleting local storage in NMI Currently, local storage may deadlock when deferring freeing selem or local storage through kfree_rcu(), call_rcu() or call_rcu_tasks_trace() in NMI or reentrant. Since deleting selem in NMI is an unlikely use case, partially mitigate it by returning error when calling from bpf_xxx_storage_delete() helpers in NMI. Note that, it is still possible to deadlock through reentrant. A full mitigation requires returning error when irqs_disabled() is true, which, however is too heavy-handed for bpf_xxx_storage_delete(). The long-term solution requires _nolock versions of call_rcu. Another possible solution is to defer the free through irq_work [0], but it would grow the size of selem, which is non-ideal. The check is only needed in bpf_selem_unlink(), which is used by helpers and syscalls. bpf_selem_unlink_nofail() is fine as it is called during map and owner tear down that never run in NMI or reentrant. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260205190233.912-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com/

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e84acaf936970b5b0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/350de5b8a9befaa2a…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Linux	Linux	Affected: a10787e6d58c24b51e91c19c6d16c5da89fcaa4b , < e84acaf936970b5b0be2c93bbf255295ba9406df (git) Affected: a10787e6d58c24b51e91c19c6d16c5da89fcaa4b , < 350de5b8a9befaa2a68861c51f671d4f5f751ca5 (git)	guessed
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.13 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.10 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)	guessed

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