CVE-2026-89903EPSS p6.4%
CVE-2026-89903CVE-2026-89903
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
LoongArch: Do not save/restore percpu base register in rethook trampoline
The rethook trampoline saves $r21 ($u0), the percpu base, into its frame
at entry and restores it at exit. Inbetween rethook_trampoline_handler()
may schedule via preempt_enable_notrace().
If the task migrates to another CPU, the frame's $r21 holds the old
CPU's percpu base, and restoring it poisons $r21 on the new CPU. Until
the next user->kernel transition heals $r21, all this_cpu_*() accesses
(runqueues, RCU per-CPU data, timer tick programming, FPU ownership)
hit the wrong CPU's percpu area.
Under kretprobe-heavy preemptible load this can corrupt scheduler and
timer state: scheduling-while-atomic splats, wrong-CPU RCU warnings,
WARN_ON_ONCE(rq != this_rq()) in nohz_balance_exit_idle(), and CPUs
parking in the idle loop with the constant timer never re-armed (hard
lockup). Reproduces on a Loongson-3A6000 with kretprobes on VFS paths
plus h
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.18% probability of exploitation · percentile 6.4% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-16 |