{"cve":"CVE-2026-98644","nvd":{"published":"2026-10-18T16:17:17.623","modified":"2026-10-19T10:19:28.723","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Avoid soft lockup in __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch()\n\n__htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch() has no rescheduling point. The\nbatch count bounds how many entries are copied out, not how many\nbuckets are visited, so one BPF_MAP_LOOKUP_BATCH call can walk the\nmap end to end. The empty-bucket fast path is worse: it stays inside\na single rcu_read_lock() / bpf_disable_instrumentation() section for\nany run of consecutive empty buckets.\n\nThat holds up on small maps, but it falls apart at scale. On a\n144-CPU arm64 host running a CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE kernel, periodic\nBPF_MAP_LOOKUP_BATCH calls against an LRU hash map with 16,777,216\nbuckets held a CPU inside the batch op for 77+ seconds and triggered\nthe soft lockup watchdog.\n\nCommit 75134f16e7dd (\"bpf: Add schedule points in batch ops\") fixed this\nsame problem in the generic batch ops, but not in this htab-native path,\nwhich every htab-based hash map variant uses for its lookup[_and_delete]\nbatch ops.\n\nComplete that fix here. Leave the critical section after 64 consecutive\nempty buckets, call cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), and resume at the saved\nbucket cursor. No locks are held at that point, and resuming from the\ncursor is already the function's behavior for non-empty buckets. Add the\nsame call to the per-bucket loop after copy_to_user(), where every lock\nhas been dropped. cond_resched_rcu() is not enough here: sleeping with\nbpf_prog_active elevated makes tracing programs on that CPU silently\nskip their invocations.\n\nPlain cond_resched() is not enough either. It is a no-op under PREEMPT\nand PREEMPT_LAZY, the only models arm64 and x86 have offered since\ncommit 7dadeaa6e851 (\"sched: Further restrict the preemption modes\").\nIt is also never a Tasks RCU quiescent state, in any model: the\nreschedule counts as a preemption. The walking task stays a holdout and\nstalls every synchronize_rcu_tasks() caller, ftrace and BPF trampoline\nteardown included, until the syscall returns [1].\ncond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() is the usual tool for that [2]. It reports\nthe quiescent state at each yield and still reschedules as\ncond_resched() does on PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44f9bcb5ab2b268bc763ed3ebec83308b4972936","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e48fe9b1c77966bede0a73feb3059d7595f642d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c8b1869cb99a32a962388848cd19604fb41263e","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77a3b52b4455e6377e549539e757bc55eedefb51","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85136bf22404474a815fc0ed26ec0d1cbc1bc3f9"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T23:00:53.604569364+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-98644","score":0.00206,"percentile":0.10491,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}