CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98039
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Require MEM_PERCPU for percpu kptr stores
map_kptr_match_type() treats perm_flags as the set of register type flags
that a kptr field permits. Adding MEM_PERCPU to that set for
BPF_KPTR_PERCPU does not require the source register to carry it, however.
The subset test consequently accepts both a plain bpf_obj_new() allocation
and a referenced kernel pointer into a __percpu_kptr map field.
Loads from the field are always marked MEM_PERCPU. Consumers then treat the
stored value as the cookie returned by bpf_percpu_obj_new(): per-CPU pointer
helpers relocate it, and map teardown selects the per-CPU free path. A plain
allocation can therefore provide an arbitrary kernel read/write, while a
kernel pointer can be relocated into an invalid address or sent through a
missing destructor.
Require the source MEM_PERCPU flag to match the destination field kind.
This preserves valid bpf_percpu_obj_new() stores and rejects both the
program-BTF and kernel-BTF variants.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/048029ba1c793f8cabc4ad5eea765da01903f8f1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bdd6121c8dd5f1764efe701ce26bb8e15acb172 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aaa9cf7707d1c5c0d2ca9d40c8b71652ac1c3c3f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad4ebae5dbc2d47b544aa54f03c12490065be08a git.kernel.org