In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched_ext: Skip sub-disable teardown for never-linked sub-schedulers
A sub-scheduler enable can fail before scx_link_sched() links the sched into
the hierarchy, e.g. when the parent is already being disabled, and cleanup
still runs the full scx_sub_disable().
That is racy against root disable: drain_descendants() is the only ordering
between a sub's disable-time task walk and root disable's all-task teardown,
and an unlinked sub is invisible to it. Root's teardown can thus run between
the never-linked sub's drain and its walk, exiting every task to no
scheduler.
The walk then trips the membership WARN and re-homes the exited tasks onto
the dying hierarchy, a use-after-free.
Skip the cgroup ownership reset and the task walk if @sch was never linked,
indicated by the empty ->sibling as unlinking only happens later in the same
function. The membership WARN remains valid: a linked sub is always waited
on by an ancestor's drain.
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Information
Published : 2026-08-22 16:16
Updated : 2026-08-25 06:18
NVD link : CVE-2026-74731
Mitre link : CVE-2026-74731
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-74731
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CWE
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