# CVE-2024-35985: sched/eevdf: Prevent vlag from going out of bounds in reweight\_eevdf()

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.6.30
- Published: 2024-05-20 · Updated: 2026-05-23

## Affected

- Linux: from 6.6.4, fixed in 6.6.30
- Linux: 6.7

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/eevdf: Prevent vlag from going out of bounds in reweight_eevdf() It was possible to have pick_eevdf() return NULL, which then causes a NULL-deref. This turned out to be due to entity_eligible() returning falsely negative because of a s64 multiplcation overflow. Specifically, reweight_eevdf() computes the vlag without considering the limit placed upon vlag as update_entity_lag() does, and then the scaling multiplication (remember that weight is 20bit fixed point) can overflow. This then leads to the new vruntime being weird which then causes the above entity_eligible() to go side-ways and claim nothing is eligible. Thus limit the range of vlag accordingly. All this was quite rare, but fatal when it does happen.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/470d347b14b0ecffa9b39cf8f644fa2351db3efb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06f27e6d7bf0abf54488259ef36bbf0e1fccb35c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1560d1f6eb6b398bddd80c16676776c0325fe5fe

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