DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98530

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-98530
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98530.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98530
Upstream
Published
2026-10-18T17:47:37Z
Modified
2026-10-19T05:00:11Z
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kprobes: Fix permanent hang when flushing the kprobe optimizer Writing 0 to /proc/sys/debug/kprobes-optimization while a kprobe is jump-optimized never returns. The writer sleeps in D state forever with kprobe_sysctl_mutex held, so any later read or write of that sysctl hangs as well. For example, with vfs_read+9 as an optimizable address in this build: # cd /sys/kernel/tracing # echo 'p:myprobe vfs_read+9' >> kprobe_events # echo 1 > events/kprobes/myprobe/enable # # wait until /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list shows [OPTIMIZED] # echo 0 > /proc/sys/debug/kprobes-optimization INFO: task sh:246 blocked for more than 10 seconds. Call Trace: __schedule+0x1176/0x4f70 schedule+0xdc/0x2c0 schedule_timeout+0x17b/0x260 wait_for_completion+0x173/0x3c0 wait_for_kprobe_optimizer_locked+0xbc/0x130 proc_kprobes_optimization_handler+0x156/0x1b0 proc_sys_call_handler+0x324/0x490 vfs_write+0x52d/0xfe0 ksys_write+0xff/0x200 do_syscall_64+0x106/0x630 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f ... INFO: task cat:265 is blocked on a mutex likely owned by task sh:246. wait_for_kprobe_optimizer_locked() reinitializes optimizer_completion, asks the optimizer thread to flush and sleeps in wait_for_completion(). The thread drains the (un)optimizing lists, but calls complete() only if completion_done() is true, i.e. if the completion is already done, which never happens while someone waits. disarm_all_kprobes() and kprobe_trace_self_tests_init() wait the same way. Calling complete() unconditionally would not be enough: the waiter drops kprobe_mutex while it sleeps, and nothing else serializes the sysctl handler against the debugfs "enabled" file. A second flusher that still finds the lists non-empty, e.g. because a disabled probe is queued for unoptimizing, reinitializes the completion under the first: sysctl write debugfs "enabled" write unoptimize_all_kprobes() wait_for_kprobe_optimizer_locked() init_completion(c) mutex_unlock(&kprobe_mutex) wait_for_completion(c) disarm_all_kprobes() wait_for_kprobe_optimizer_locked() init_completion(c) // c->wait is reset, the first // waiter is off the queue mutex_unlock(&kprobe_mutex) wait_for_completion(c) kprobe_optimizer() complete(c) // wakes the debugfs writer only where c is &optimizer_completion. Lining up the two writes during an optimizer pass loses the sysctl writer this way. Replace the completion with a counter of optimizer passes, bumped at the end of each pass and signalled with wake_up_var_locked(), both under kprobe_mutex. A flusher samples the count and waits with wait_var_event_mutex(), which drops kprobe_mutex only while sleeping, so a new count means a whole pass ran in the meantime. Nothing is reinitialized, so several flushers can sleep in the wait at once.

References

Affected packages

Debian:14 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.2.9-1

Affected versions

6.*
6.12.38-1
6.12.41-1
6.12.43-1~bpo12+1
6.12.43-1
6.12.48-1
6.12.57-1~bpo12+1
6.12.57-1
6.12.63-1~bpo12+1
6.12.63-1
6.12.69-1~bpo12+1
6.12.69-1
6.12.73-1~bpo12+1
6.12.73-1
6.12.74-1
6.12.74-2~bpo12+1
6.12.74-2
6.12.85-1~bpo12+1
6.12.85-1
6.12.86-1~bpo12+1
6.12.86-1
6.12.88-1~bpo12+1
6.12.88-1
6.12.90-1~bpo12+1
6.12.90-1
6.12.90-2~bpo12+1
6.12.90-2
6.12.94-1~bpo12+1
6.12.94-1
6.12.95-1~bpo12+1
6.12.95-1
6.12.96-1
6.12.100-1
6.12.101-1
6.12.105-1
6.12.107-1
6.12.111-1
6.12.113-1
6.13~rc6-1~exp1
6.13~rc7-1~exp1
6.13.2-1~exp1
6.13.3-1~exp1
6.13.4-1~exp1
6.13.5-1~exp1
6.13.6-1~exp1
6.13.7-1~exp1
6.13.8-1~exp1
6.13.9-1~exp1
6.13.10-1~exp1
6.13.11-1~exp1
6.14.3-1~exp1
6.14.5-1~exp1
6.14.6-1~exp1
6.15~rc7-1~exp1
6.15-1~exp1
6.15.1-1~exp1
6.15.2-1~exp1
6.15.3-1~exp1
6.15.4-1~exp1
6.15.5-1~exp1
6.15.6-1~exp1
6.16~rc7-1~exp1
6.16-1~exp1
6.16.1-1~exp1
6.16.3-1~bpo13+1
6.16.3-1
6.16.5-1
6.16.6-1
6.16.7-1
6.16.8-1
6.16.9-1
6.16.10-1
6.16.11-1
6.16.12-1~bpo13+1
6.16.12-1
6.16.12-2
6.17.2-1~exp1
6.17.5-1~exp1
6.17.6-1
6.17.7-1
6.17.7-2
6.17.8-1~bpo13+1
6.17.8-1
6.17.9-1
6.17.10-1
6.17.11-1
6.17.12-1
6.17.13-1~bpo13+1
6.17.13-1
6.18~rc4-1~exp1
6.18~rc4-1~exp2
6.18~rc5-1~exp1
6.18~rc6-1~exp1
6.18~rc7-1~exp1
6.18.1-1~exp1
6.18.2-1~exp1
6.18.3-1
6.18.5-1~bpo13+1
6.18.5-1
6.18.8-1
6.18.9-1~bpo13+1
6.18.9-1
6.18.10-1
6.18.12-1~bpo13+1
6.18.12-1
6.18.13-1
6.18.14-1
6.18.15-1~bpo13+1
6.18.15-1
6.19~rc4-1~exp1
6.19~rc5-1~exp1
6.19~rc6-1~exp1
6.19~rc7-1~exp1
6.19~rc8-1~exp1
6.19-1~exp1
6.19.2-1~exp1
6.19.3-1~exp1
6.19.4-1~exp1
6.19.5-1~exp1
6.19.6-1
6.19.6-2~bpo13+1
6.19.6-2
6.19.8-1~bpo13+1
6.19.8-1
6.19.10-1~bpo13+1
6.19.10-1
6.19.11-1~bpo13+1
6.19.11-1
6.19.12-1
6.19.13-1~bpo13+1
6.19.13-1
6.19.14-1~bpo13+1
6.19.14-1
7.*
7.0-1~exp1
7.0.1-1~exp1
7.0.3-1
7.0.4-1~bpo13+1
7.0.4-1
7.0.7-1~bpo13+1
7.0.7-1
7.0.9-1~bpo13+1
7.0.9-1
7.0.10-1~bpo13+1
7.0.10-1
7.0.12-1
7.0.12-2~bpo13+1
7.0.12-2
7.0.13-1~bpo13+1
7.0.13-1
7.0.14-1
7.1~rc2-1~exp1
7.1~rc3-1~exp1
7.1~rc4-1~exp1
7.1~rc4-1~exp2
7.1~rc5-1~exp1
7.1~rc7-1~exp1
7.1.1-1~exp1
7.1.2-1~exp1
7.1.3-1~bpo13+1
7.1.3-1
7.1.3-1+sunvdc
7.1.4-1
7.1.5-1
7.1.6-1
7.1.7-1~bpo13+1
7.1.7-1
7.1.8-1~bpo13+1
7.1.8-1
7.1.8-2
7.1.9-1
7.1.9-1+sparc64
7.1.10-1
7.1.12-1
7.1.13-1~bpo13+1
7.1.13-1
7.2~rc3-1~exp1
7.2~rc5-1~exp1
7.2~rc7-1~exp1
7.2.2-1~exp1
7.2.3-1~exp1
7.2.6-1~bpo13+1
7.2.6-1
7.2.7-1
7.2.8-1
7.2.9-1~bpo13+1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98530.json"