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GHSA-H7WR-QV5C-937X

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-03-25 12:30 – Updated: 2026-05-26 15:32

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

perf/core: Fix invalid wait context in ctx_sched_in()

Lockdep found a bug in the event scheduling when a pinned event was failed and wakes up the threads in the ring buffer like below.

It seems it should not grab a wait-queue lock under perf-context lock. Let's do it with irq_work.

[ 39.913691] ============================= [ 39.914157] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ] [ 39.914623] 6.15.0-next-20250530-next-2025053 #1 Not tainted [ 39.915271] ----------------------------- [ 39.915731] repro/837 is trying to lock: [ 39.916191] ffff88801acfabd8 (&event->waitq){....}-{3:3}, at: __wake_up+0x26/0x60 [ 39.917182] other info that might help us debug this: [ 39.917761] context-{5:5} [ 39.918079] 4 locks held by repro/837: [ 39.918530] #0: ffffffff8725cd00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: __perf_event_task_sched_in+0xd1/0xbc0 [ 39.919612] #1: ffff88806ca3c6f8 (&cpuctx_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x1a7/0xbc0 [ 39.920748] #2: ffff88800d91fc18 (&ctx->lock){....}-{2:2}, at: __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x1f9/0xbc0 [ 39.921819] #3: ffffffff8725cd00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: perf_event_wakeup+0x6c/0x470

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2026-23311 (GCVE-0-2026-23311)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-25 10:27 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:04

Title

perf/core: Fix invalid wait context in ctx_sched_in()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/core: Fix invalid wait context in ctx_sched_in() Lockdep found a bug in the event scheduling when a pinned event was failed and wakes up the threads in the ring buffer like below. It seems it should not grab a wait-queue lock under perf-context lock. Let's do it with irq_work. [ 39.913691] ============================= [ 39.914157] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ] [ 39.914623] 6.15.0-next-20250530-next-2025053 #1 Not tainted [ 39.915271] ----------------------------- [ 39.915731] repro/837 is trying to lock: [ 39.916191] ffff88801acfabd8 (&event->waitq){....}-{3:3}, at: __wake_up+0x26/0x60 [ 39.917182] other info that might help us debug this: [ 39.917761] context-{5:5} [ 39.918079] 4 locks held by repro/837: [ 39.918530] #0: ffffffff8725cd00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: __perf_event_task_sched_in+0xd1/0xbc0 [ 39.919612] #1: ffff88806ca3c6f8 (&cpuctx_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x1a7/0xbc0 [ 39.920748] #2: ffff88800d91fc18 (&ctx->lock){....}-{2:2}, at: __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x1f9/0xbc0 [ 39.921819] #3: ffffffff8725cd00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: perf_event_wakeup+0x6c/0x470

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c67ab059953e3b66c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/825f218ca70ef394c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/486ff5ad49bc50315…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: f4b07fd62d4d11d57a15cb4ae01b3833282eb8f6 , < c67ab059953e3b66cb17ddd6524c23f9e1f6526d (git) Affected: f4b07fd62d4d11d57a15cb4ae01b3833282eb8f6 , < 825f218ca70ef394c2b8546b313711d867b24584 (git) Affected: f4b07fd62d4d11d57a15cb4ae01b3833282eb8f6 , < 486ff5ad49bc50315bcaf6d45f04a33ef0a45ced (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.17 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19.7 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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