CVE-2026-99267

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

io uring/napi: make stale entries time out after 60s

With dynamic tracking a NAPI id that hasn't been seen for a minute is meant to be dropped from the list the ring busy polls. The timeout is added to jiffies, but it is defined as 60 * SEC CONVERSION, and SEC CONVERSION isn't the number of jiffies in a second. It is the internal factor of timespec64 to jiffies(), HZ scaled up by SEC JIFFIE SC bits. For HZ=1000 that is 1000 << 22, which puts the timeout at about eight years. On 32-bit the multiplication overflows.

So entries are never removed, and every id that a socket of the ring ever had keeps being polled on each wait.