# CVE-2026-90299: bpf: Fix sleepable check for tracing/lsm prog

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.2.6
- Published: 2026-09-17 · Updated: 2026-10-19

## Affected

- Linux: from 16d9c5660692d6f0e6aba367274de2b6dfd4343c, fixed in 976f1be72740cfbc351d3841fd21186dda3ea723; from 16d9c5660692d6f0e6aba367274de2b6dfd4343c, fixed in 00244bdaa423d93f4571f3f6854378ce3365e524
- Linux: 7.1
- Kernel (Linux): from 7.1.0, fixed in 7.2.6

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix sleepable check for tracing/lsm prog When CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION is disabled, a sleepable tracing prog is allowed to attach to '__x64_'-alike prefix symbols. It is because the verifier does not verify whether the symbol is a kernel function or a bpf prog. That said, a sleepable tracing prog is allowed to attach to a bpf prog target whose name has '__x64_'-alike prefix. For example, a sleepable fentry prog attaches to a '__x64_sys_nop' XDP prog, and copies buffer from a user pointer with bpf_copy_from_user() helper. After attaching the XDP prog to lo interface, the kernel BUG could be triggered by 'ping -c 1 -W 1 127.0.0.1': [ 3.460756] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/bpf/trampoline.c:1324 Fix it by disallowing sleepable prog always when its target btf is not a kernel's btf.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/976f1be72740cfbc351d3841fd21186dda3ea723
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00244bdaa423d93f4571f3f6854378ce3365e524

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