CVE-2026-98628

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

bpf: Make post-verification instruction rewrites killable

After do check() returns, the verifier runs several instruction rewrite passes. Some of them patch or remove one instruction at a time. Each operation moves the remaining instruction and auxiliary-data arrays and adjusts all branch offsets, making the overall work quadratic in the program length.

A privileged loader can submit 131072 unconditional jumps by zero followed by a valid return. Verification finishes quickly, but bpf opt remove nops() then spends a long time removing each jump separately. Since this post-verification work neither checks for signals nor reschedules, a pending SIGKILL cannot terminate the task until the rewrite finishes.

Make bpf patch insn data() and verifier remove insns() common cancellation and rescheduling points. These helpers run from BPF PROG LOAD process context, and bpf patch insn data() can already sleep while reallocating auxiliary data.

Report interrupted constant blinding as -EINTR and propagate it through both JIT paths, including kernels that permit interpreter fallback. Other blinding failures retain the existing fallback behavior.

This does not reduce the quadratic cost of the rewrite passes, but it makes the work preemptible and allows a killed loader to be torn down promptly.