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medium 5.5

CVE-2026-23311 json

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

published 2026-03-25 7 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-15253

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 0%
public exploits
0
none known

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

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.18.17, 6.19.7, 7.0
  • linux Debian 14 6.19.8-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23311

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-23311 updated cvss 5.5

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

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 0% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

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