CVE-2026-93135

bpf: Reject programs with inlined helpers if JIT is not available

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 17, 2026

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Description

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

bpf: Reject programs with inlined helpers if JIT is not available

When an architecture (such as LoongArch, ARM64, and RISC-V) implements bpf_jit_inlines_helper_call(), the verifier skips rewriting the helper call offset (insn->imm) in bpf_do_misc_fixups(). This is because the helper is expected to be inlined by the JIT compiler later. Therefore, insn->imm remains as the raw helper enum ID.

However, if JIT is disabled at runtime (net.core.bpf_jit_enable=0) or if JIT compilation fails dynamically (e.g., due to OOM), the program falls back to the BPF interpreter.

When the interpreter executes (__bpf_call_base + insn->imm) with the unpatched raw ID, it jumps into an invalid address space, triggering an instruction alignment fault or a kernel panic.

Although these helpers have valid C implementations in the kernel, the omission of offset rewriting makes runtime interpreter fallback fatal.

Fix this by setting 'prog->jit_required = 1' when helper call rewriting is skipped for JIT inlining. This ensures that such programs are safely rejected if JIT is not available, preventing the runtime kernel panic.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 2ddec2c80b4402c293c7e6e0881cecaaf77e8cec to before 21c6445366795fa3a89954e1d318e7c8afdef843Affected
  • 2ddec2c80b4402c293c7e6e0881cecaaf77e8cec to before f1c27922576edccb99d0257827d09bd05c0304a6Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.10Affected
  • before 6.10Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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