Bug 2439862 (CVE-2026-23134) - CVE-2026-23134 kernel: slab: fix kmalloc_nolock() context check for PREEMPT_RT
Summary: CVE-2026-23134 kernel: slab: fix kmalloc_nolock() context check for PREEMPT_RT
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-23134
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-02-14 16:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-02-16 11:25 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-02-14 16:02:14 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

slab: fix kmalloc_nolock() context check for PREEMPT_RT

On PREEMPT_RT kernels, local_lock becomes a sleeping lock. The current
check in kmalloc_nolock() only verifies we're not in NMI or hard IRQ
context, but misses the case where preemption is disabled.

When a BPF program runs from a tracepoint with preemption disabled
(preempt_count > 0), kmalloc_nolock() proceeds to call
local_lock_irqsave() which attempts to acquire a sleeping lock,
triggering:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 6128
  preempt_count: 2, expected: 0

Fix this by checking !preemptible() on PREEMPT_RT, which directly
expresses the constraint that we cannot take a sleeping lock when
preemption is disabled. This encompasses the previous checks for NMI
and hard IRQ contexts while also catching cases where preemption is
disabled.


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