Bug 2451161 (CVE-2026-23371) - CVE-2026-23371 kernel: sched/deadline: Fix missing ENQUEUE_REPLENISH during PI de-boosting
Summary: CVE-2026-23371 kernel: sched/deadline: Fix missing ENQUEUE_REPLENISH during P...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-23371
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-03-25 11:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-03-25 19:05 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-03-25 11:01:55 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sched/deadline: Fix missing ENQUEUE_REPLENISH during PI de-boosting

Running stress-ng --schedpolicy 0 on an RT kernel on a big machine
might lead to the following WARNINGs (edited).

 sched: DL de-boosted task PID 22725: REPLENISH flag missing

 WARNING: CPU: 93 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/deadline.c:239 dequeue_task_dl+0x15c/0x1f8
 ... (running_bw underflow)
 Call trace:
  dequeue_task_dl+0x15c/0x1f8 (P)
  dequeue_task+0x80/0x168
  deactivate_task+0x24/0x50
  push_dl_task+0x264/0x2e0
  dl_task_timer+0x1b0/0x228
  __hrtimer_run_queues+0x188/0x378
  hrtimer_interrupt+0xfc/0x260
  ...

The problem is that when a SCHED_DEADLINE task (lock holder) is
changed to a lower priority class via sched_setscheduler(), it may
fail to properly inherit the parameters of potential DEADLINE donors
if it didn't already inherit them in the past (shorter deadline than
donor's at that time). This might lead to bandwidth accounting
corruption, as enqueue_task_dl() won't recognize the lock holder as
boosted.

The scenario occurs when:
1. A DEADLINE task (donor) blocks on a PI mutex held by another
   DEADLINE task (holder), but the holder doesn't inherit parameters
   (e.g., it already has a shorter deadline)
2. sched_setscheduler() changes the holder from DEADLINE to a lower
   class while still holding the mutex
3. The holder should now inherit DEADLINE parameters from the donor
   and be enqueued with ENQUEUE_REPLENISH, but this doesn't happen

Fix the issue by introducing __setscheduler_dl_pi(), which detects when
a DEADLINE (proper or boosted) task gets setscheduled to a lower
priority class. In case, the function makes the task inherit DEADLINE
parameters of the donoer (pi_se) and sets ENQUEUE_REPLENISH flag to
ensure proper bandwidth accounting during the next enqueue operation.


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