CVE-2026-93112 (GCVE-0-2026-93112)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-17 16:11
Modified
2026-10-19 09:05
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Require a BPF cpumask for bpf_cpumask_populate() bpf_cpumask_populate() writes to its destination with bitmap_copy(), but the destination is typed as struct cpumask *. That allows the verifier to accept borrowed cpumask pointers returned by read-only kfuncs, such as scx_bpf_get_online_cpumask(), as a writable destination. Make the destination a struct bpf_cpumask * so populate follows the same ownership rule as the other mutating cpumask kfuncs. Query kfuncs continue to accept const struct cpumask * inputs.
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Linux Linux Version: 950ad93df2fce70445e655ed2e74f5c1a8653ab2
Version: 950ad93df2fce70445e655ed2e74f5c1a8653ab2
Version: 950ad93df2fce70445e655ed2e74f5c1a8653ab2
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