CVE-2026-23311

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
25/03/2026
Last modified:
25/03/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> perf/core: Fix invalid wait context in ctx_sched_in()<br /> <br /> Lockdep found a bug in the event scheduling when a pinned event was<br /> failed and wakes up the threads in the ring buffer like below.<br /> <br /> It seems it should not grab a wait-queue lock under perf-context lock.<br /> Let&amp;#39;s do it with irq_work.<br /> <br /> [ 39.913691] =============================<br /> [ 39.914157] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]<br /> [ 39.914623] 6.15.0-next-20250530-next-2025053 #1 Not tainted<br /> [ 39.915271] -----------------------------<br /> [ 39.915731] repro/837 is trying to lock:<br /> [ 39.916191] ffff88801acfabd8 (&amp;event-&gt;waitq){....}-{3:3}, at: __wake_up+0x26/0x60<br /> [ 39.917182] other info that might help us debug this:<br /> [ 39.917761] context-{5:5}<br /> [ 39.918079] 4 locks held by repro/837:<br /> [ 39.918530] #0: ffffffff8725cd00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: __perf_event_task_sched_in+0xd1/0xbc0<br /> [ 39.919612] #1: ffff88806ca3c6f8 (&amp;cpuctx_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x1a7/0xbc0<br /> [ 39.920748] #2: ffff88800d91fc18 (&amp;ctx-&gt;lock){....}-{2:2}, at: __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x1f9/0xbc0<br /> [ 39.921819] #3: ffffffff8725cd00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: perf_event_wakeup+0x6c/0x470

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