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CVE-2026-98477

perf/core: Fix NULL pmu_ctx passed to pmu->sched_task() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/core: Fix NULL pmu_ctx passed to pmu->sched_task() perf_pmu_sched_task() returns early when cpuctx->task_ctx is set, and cpc->task_epc is only non-NULL while a task context is scheduled in on this CPU. __perf_pmu_sched_task() therefore always passes NULL: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00 pc : armv8pmu_sched_task+0x14/0x50 Call trace: armv8pmu_sched_task+0x14/0x50 (P) perf_pmu_sched_task+0xac/0x108 __perf_event_task_sched_out+0x6c/0xe0 Pass &cpc->epc instead, the CPU-wide context for this PMU, which the function already dereferences a few lines up to find pmu. armv8pmu_sched_task() is the only in-tree implementation that dereferences the argument, and it only reads ->pmu, so the oops needs BRBE, added in v6.17.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b before 98181f9721f75f1a544dc563b0d8fed1d5c398d5; affected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b before b5409311b606d536cc485f3706c242c2afa93edb; affected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b before 249a2bd87a0e57dc28f36e992807edc9cae309b5; affected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b before ec15f6a50183fc01f470af74ad49900fb3731fca; affected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b before 36bb85cf36cab15fb611cb44b78a5df06e4e69a2
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.2; unaffected 0 before 6.2; unaffected 6.6.160 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.112 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.55 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.9 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

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