bpf: Reject sleepable BPF_LSM_CGROUP programs at load time
CVE-2026-74338 · published 15 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.8 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 69fd337a975c7e690dfe49d9cb4fe5ba1e6db44e to < f0a49d16804d319774388a32d8cdcef319a9e481, 69fd337a975c7e690dfe49d9cb4fe5ba1e6db44e to < 4b9d8bdeb19e709f9bc3c317d48b0c0add3b2b1d, 69fd337a975c7e690dfe49d9cb4fe5ba1e6db44e to < b4059a1f57eff3e206d44697f64ad81076512760, 69fd337a975c7e690dfe49d9cb4fe5ba1e6db44e to < be9eaf2bb5db4ad3de61ef739fd268fd7f135737
- Linux Linux: 6.0
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How to fix
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- Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
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The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Reject sleepable BPF_LSM_CGROUP programs at load time
The cgroup shim runs under rcu_read_lock_dont_migrate(), so we should
not attach any sleepable BPF programs there. Add support to the verifier
to explicitly reject attempts to load sleepable BPF programs destined
for LSM cgroup attachment.
Without this, we get the following splat from a BPF_LSM_CGROUP
program marked BPF_F_SLEEPABLE attached to file_open when it calls
bpf_get_dentry_xattr():
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1567
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 34317, name: load
preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 2, expected: 0
Call Trace:
down_read+0x76/0x480
ext4_xattr_get+0x11f/0x700
__vfs_getxattr+0xf0/0x150
bpf_get_dentry_xattr+0xbb/0xf0
bpf_prog_e76a298dac9218c6_test_open+0x6a/0x85
__cgroup_bpf_run_lsm_current+0x326/0x840
bpf_trampoline_6442534646+0x62/0x14d
security_file_open+0x34/0x60
do_dentry_open+0x340/0x1260
vfs_open+0x7a/0x440
path_openat+0x1bac/0x30a0
libbpf provides a .s named section variant for every sleepable
program type except lsm_cgroup, reflecting that per-cgroup LSM programs
are intended to only run in a non-sleepable context.
The above splat was obtained by bypassing libbpf by using bpf(2)
directly.
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0a49d16804d319774388a32d8cdcef319a9e481
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b9d8bdeb19e709f9bc3c317d48b0c0add3b2b1d
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4059a1f57eff3e206d44697f64ad81076512760
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/be9eaf2bb5db4ad3de61ef739fd268fd7f135737
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b038319be442c620f774e6fc9e9283deeca1c75
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