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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2026· Updated May 7, 2026

CVE-2026-31733

CVE-2026-31733

Description

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

sched_ext: Fix stale direct dispatch state in ddsp_dsq_id

@p->scx.ddsp_dsq_id can be left set (non-SCX_DSQ_INVALID) triggering a spurious warning in mark_direct_dispatch() when the next wakeup's ops.select_cpu() calls scx_bpf_dsq_insert(), such as:

WARNING: kernel/sched/ext.c:1273 at scx_dsq_insert_commit+0xcd/0x140

The root cause is that ddsp_dsq_id was only cleared in dispatch_enqueue(), which is not reached in all paths that consume or cancel a direct dispatch verdict.

Fix it by clearing it at the right places:

- direct_dispatch(): cache the direct dispatch state in local variables and clear it before dispatch_enqueue() on the synchronous path. For the deferred path, the direct dispatch state must remain set until process_ddsp_deferred_locals() consumes them.

- process_ddsp_deferred_locals(): cache the dispatch state in local variables and clear it before calling dispatch_to_local_dsq(), which may migrate the task to another rq.

- do_enqueue_task(): clear the dispatch state on the enqueue path (local/global/bypass fallbacks), where the direct dispatch verdict is ignored.

- dequeue_task_scx(): clear the dispatch state after dispatch_dequeue() to handle both the deferred dispatch cancellation and the holding_cpu race, covering all cases where a pending direct dispatch is cancelled.

- scx_disable_task(): clear the direct dispatch state when transitioning a task out of the current scheduler. Waking tasks may have had the direct dispatch state set by the outgoing scheduler's ops.select_cpu() and then been queued on a wake_list via ttwu_queue_wakelist(), when SCX_OPS_ALLOW_QUEUED_WAKEUP is set. Such tasks are not on the runqueue and are not iterated by scx_bypass(), so their direct dispatch state won't be cleared. Without this clear, any subsequent SCX scheduler that tries to direct dispatch the task will trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE() in mark_direct_dispatch().

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  • Linux/Kernel7 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 6 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.12,<6.12.82
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*

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