CVE-2026-93112

bpf: Require a BPF cpumask for bpf_cpumask_populate()

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: September 17, 2026 at 04:11 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 10:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.15950ad93df2fce70445e655ed2e74f5c1a8653ab2
Vendor states this is fixed in 0cfc9348a045da64955af2dd6902e66dfc7d6469 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8740156ad33be5071b588b594c55f279457f667c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b7e2a5c6519adc73be55c3de2cb545e095a0fbc5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.15 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.52 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.1HIGHLinux
Vector?

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