CVE-2026-99205 in Linux
Résumé
par MITRE • 28/10/2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched/core: Call wakeup_preempt() for queued tasks during class change
Paul reported recent RCU changes exposed a lost resched where CPU idles with a rcutorture thread waiting while being completely runnable.
Dumping the rq state at the time of idling with runnable tasks showed the following:
rq->next_class = &fair_sched_class rq->nr_running = 1 rq->cfs.h_nr_queued = 0 rq->rt.rt_nr_running = 1
Although the waiting task was an RT task, "rq->next_class" did not point to rt_sched_class and was stuck at the lower priority fair_sched_class.
Inspecting sched_change_end() revealed the following race with __sched_setscheduler() for queued, but non-running tasks:
CPU0 CPU1 ==== ====
__schedule()
/* * rq->donor is a fair task that blocks. * rq->next_class = &fair_sched_class */
rq_lock(rq0)
pick_next_task() /* nr_running = 0 */ pick_task_fair() sched_balance_newidle() raw_spin_rq_unlock(rq0) rq_lock(rq0)
activate_task(rq0, p) /* p is a fair task */ rq0->nr_running++; rq0->cfs.h_nr_queued++; wakeup_preempt(rq, p) rq->next_class = &fair_sched_class resched_curr()
rq_unlock(rq0)
__sched_setscheduler(p) /* p is moved to SCHED_RR */ task_rq_lock(p) sched_change_begin()
rq0->cfs.h_nr_queued--; rq0->rt.rt_nr_running++;
sched_change_end() /* * p->on_rq = 1 (ctx->queued) * but p is not rq->donor * (!ctx->running) hence * resched_curr() is and * rq->next_class upgrade is * skipped. */
task_rq_unlock()
raw_spin_rq_lock(rq0)
/* * rq->nr_running = 1 * rq->cfs.h_nr_queued = 0 * rq->rt.rt_nr_running = 1 * rq->next_class = &fair_sched_class */
if (rq->cfs.h_nr_queued && ...) /* Above is false */
if (rq_modified_above(this_rq, &fair_sched_class)) /* Also false since rq->next_class is still fair */
/* * sched_balance_newidle() is considered to * have failed to pull any fair tasks and no * other wakeups were detected. */ return NULL; /* pick_task_fair() */
pick_task_idle() return rq->idle;
next = rq->idle;
/* Preemption indicators are lost */ clear_tsk_need_resched(prev); clear_preempt_need_resched();
rq->curr = rq->idle;
!!! rq->idle switches in with rq->running == 1 but !need_resched() !!!
In simple words, enqueue, followed by a class change of the newly queued task goes unnoticed in rq->next_class indicator and sched_balance_newidle() sees no fair task, nor any higher priority task enqueued.
The above sequence will lead to CPU idling with a runnable task on the CPU.
Call wakeup_preempt() for ctx->queued cases in sched_change_end() to re-evaluate rq->next_class after class change (ENQUEUE_CLASS) and set the NEED_RESCHED indicator accordingly.
Newidle balance will correctly see an enqueue of a higher priority t ---truncated---
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