CVE-2025-39780

sched/ext: Fix invalid task state transitions on class switch

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 11, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sched/ext: Fix invalid task state transitions on class switch

When enabling a sched_ext scheduler, we may trigger invalid task state transitions, resulting in warnings like the following (which can be easily reproduced by running the hotplug selftest in a loop):

sched_ext: Invalid task state transition 0 -> 3 for fish[770] WARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 787 at kernel/sched/ext.c:3862 scx_set_task_state+0x7c/0xc0 ... RIP: 0010:scx_set_task_state+0x7c/0xc0 ... Call Trace: <TASK> scx_enable_task+0x11f/0x2e0 switching_to_scx+0x24/0x110 scx_enable.isra.0+0xd14/0x13d0 bpf_struct_ops_link_create+0x136/0x1a0 __sys_bpf+0x1edd/0x2c30 __x64_sys_bpf+0x21/0x30 do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x370 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

This happens because we skip initialization for tasks that are already dead (with their usage counter set to zero), but we don't exclude them during the scheduling class transition phase.

Fix this by also skipping dead tasks during class swiching, preventing invalid task state transitions.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a8532fac7b5d27b8d62008a89593dccb6f9786ef to before 786f6314604b34c3e7de5f733f4e08e35c448a50Affected
  • a8532fac7b5d27b8d62008a89593dccb6f9786ef to before 6a32cbe95029ebe21cc08349fd7ef2a3d32d2043Affected
  • a8532fac7b5d27b8d62008a89593dccb6f9786ef to before ddf7233fcab6c247379d0928d46cc316ee122229Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.12Affected
  • before 6.12Not affected
  • 6.12.44 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.16.4 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

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