Bug 2554962 (CVE-2026-98647) - CVE-2026-98647 kernel: bpf: Fix divide-by-zero in btf_struct_walk()
Summary: CVE-2026-98647 kernel: bpf: Fix divide-by-zero in btf_struct_walk()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98647
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:36 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-21 19:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:36:02 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix divide-by-zero in btf_struct_walk()

When an access goes past the struct and the last member is a flexible
array, btf_struct_walk() folds the offset back into a single element with
(off - moff) % t->size, but never checks that the element type has a size.

BTF takes an empty struct, so this in program BTF

	/* event could be empty */
	struct event {
 #ifdef HAVE_TIMESTAMP
		__u64 ts;
 #endif
	};

	struct batch {
		int nr;
		struct event events[];
	};

divides by zero at prog load time. Getting there needs a PTR_TO_BTF_ID that
is not MEM_ALLOC, e.g. a plain read of a local kptr stashed in a map from a
sleepable program.

Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
RIP: 0010:btf_struct_walk+0x53f/0x1570
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 btf_struct_access+0x42a/0xcd0
 check_ptr_to_btf_access+0x4dc/0x1160
 check_mem_access+0x3a45/0x8740
 check_load_mem+0x36a/0xd10
 do_check_common+0x3ef0/0xb210
 bpf_check+0x6d3b/0x8580
 bpf_prog_load+0xf7c/0x2720
 __sys_bpf+0xa83/0x3690
 __x64_sys_bpf+0xc7/0x150
 x64_sys_call+0x1f3f/0x27e0
 do_syscall_64+0xe5/0x610
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
 </TASK>

Reject a zero-sized element type. The fixed array path in the same function
already bails out on the same thing:

	btf_struct_walk()
	...
		/* skip empty array */
		if (moff == mtrue_end)
			continue;

		msize /= total_nelems;


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