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CVE-2026-43392 (GCVE-0-2026-43392)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 14:21 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:23
VLAI
Title
sched_ext: Fix starvation of scx_enable() under fair-class saturation
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched_ext: Fix starvation of scx_enable() under fair-class saturation During scx_enable(), the READY -> ENABLED task switching loop changes the calling thread's sched_class from fair to ext. Since fair has higher priority than ext, saturating fair-class workloads can indefinitely starve the enable thread, hanging the system. This was introduced when the enable path switched from preempt_disable() to scx_bypass() which doesn't protect against fair-class starvation. Note that the original preempt_disable() protection wasn't complete either - in partial switch modes, the calling thread could still be starved after preempt_enable() as it may have been switched to ext class. Fix it by offloading the enable body to a dedicated system-wide RT (SCHED_FIFO) kthread which cannot be starved by either fair or ext class tasks. scx_enable() lazily creates the kthread on first use and passes the ops pointer through a struct scx_enable_cmd containing the kthread_work, then synchronously waits for completion. The workfn runs on a different kthread from sch->helper (which runs disable_work), so it can safely flush disable_work on the error path without deadlock.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8c2090c504e998c8f34ec870bae71dafcc96a6e0 , < e0b14bf06393be137d3efb6a3b7cd5b4b9810a6b (git)
Affected: 8c2090c504e998c8f34ec870bae71dafcc96a6e0 , < c44198f25fdfecc0ec0fe366bf8a47fe17d8e229 (git)
Affected: 8c2090c504e998c8f34ec870bae71dafcc96a6e0 , < 05ab9ec5dc24f234e0a2fecf3e6ff937c68f7d81 (git)
Affected: 8c2090c504e998c8f34ec870bae71dafcc96a6e0 , < b06ccbabe2506fd70b9167a644978b049150224a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.78 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.20 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.9 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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