CVE-2025-68333

Published: December 24, 2025Last modified: February 20, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched_ext: Fix possible deadlock in the deferred_irq_workfn() For PREEMPT_RT=y kernels, the deferred_irq_workfn() is executed in the per-cpu irq_work/* task context and not disable-irq, if the rq returned by container_of() is current CPU's rq, the following scenarios may occur: lock(&rq->__lock); <Interrupt> lock(&rq->__lock); This commit use IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD() to replace init_irq_work() to initialize rq->scx.deferred_irq_work, make the deferred_irq_workfn() is always invoked in hard-irq context.

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• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/541959b2fadb832a7d0ceb95041dc52bdcf6bff7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/600b4379b9a7ba41340d652211fb29699da4c629
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a257e974210320ede524f340ffe16bf4bf0dda1e