CVE-2026-98385EPSS p3.4%
CVE-2026-98385CVE-2026-98385
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched/cache: Decouple sched_cache_group from mm to fix UAF
Currently the sched cache grouping is by mm and the scheduling statistics
sched_cache_stat lives in the mm structure. This ties the life cycle
of scheduling stats with mm.
In account_mm_sched(), the scheduling stats are accessed by
task->mm->sc_stat. However, a task may be switching mm on one CPU when
another CPU is running account_mm_sched(), and possibly accessing the
old mm that was freed. This problem was found when running tests with
KASAN by Hyunwoo:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/apPb-Dr4nPYuHQOK@v4bel/
Instead of serializing the mm access by introducing extra acquisition of
rq lock in the mm free path, extract sched_cache_stat from mm_struct,
rename it as sched_cache_group and manage its life cycle apart from
mm_struct with its own ref counting. This allows us in the next patch
access sched_cache_group directly from task, and add a refcount
on
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.14% probability of exploitation · percentile 3.4% · 2026-10-17T12:00:28Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-12 |