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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-26602

CVE-2024-26602

Description

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

sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier

On some systems, sys_membarrier can be very expensive, causing overall slowdowns for everything. So put a lock on the path in order to serialize the accesses to prevent the ability for this to be called at too high of a frequency and saturate the machine.

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