LoongArch: Avoid preempt count underflow without probe
Published Sep 16, 2026
7.8
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.18%
Description
LoongArch uses break 11 for the breakpoint placed after an instruction that Kprobes executes out of line. Since userspace can issue the same break instruction, do_bp() can reach kprobe_singlestep_handler() when there is no current probe.
The handler actually returns false in this case, but it first calls preempt_enable_no_resched(). The corresponding preempt_disable() is done by kprobe_breakpoint_handler() on a real Kprobe hit, so it has not run here. As a result, an ordinary userspace breakpoint (code 11) underflows the current task's preempt count.
This also makes in_interrupt() return true until the task schedules. One visible consequence is the socket cgroup attribution: cgroup_sk_alloc() treats the allocation as interrupt context and assigns the socket to the root cgroup. A socket opened from the SIGTRAP handler can then avoid a BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE policy attached to the task's own cgroup.
Return as soon as kprobe_running() reports no active probe.
The same check has appeared in [PATCH v10 2/4] of the original LoongArch Kprobes series, but was dropped before the feature reached mainline.
Affected products
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- Version 6.3StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 0StatusunaffectedConstraints<6.3
- Version 6.12.110StatusunaffectedConstraints<=6.12.*
- Version 6.18.51StatusunaffectedConstraints<=6.18.*
- Version 6.6.157StatusunaffectedConstraints<=6.6.*
- Version 7.2.5StatusunaffectedConstraints<=7.2.*
- Version 7.3-rc2StatusunaffectedConstraints<=*
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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
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This CVE is not in the KEV list.
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Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.
Score over time
Sep–Oct 2026- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v5
Table of values (2 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
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| Oct 2, 2026 | 0.18% (0.00175) | 6.33th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 0.16% (0.00163) | 5.94th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
No CWE recorded.
References (5)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72ce4b24676e8b3b75376c4c559dd81c1ac52d5a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76395109a051b53860faaec96522ef08ae9e8e27
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1cb727fa27c2d9c7859729cd90db7bc0f46957f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4357ebeee63cb8da1446fc936573a34e68b0f71
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff40e597d5d98c0c45a4d09df8177202fac9520e
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