{"id":"CVE-2026-93044","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"bpf: Disallow interpreter fallback for arena-related insns","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Disallow interpreter fallback for arena-related insns\n\nSince the interpreter does not support the arena-related insns,\ninterpreter fallback should not be allowed for these insns in\ncore.c::__bpf_prog_select_runtime().\n\nCurrently, when the interpreter executes the arena ST/LDX/STX insns,\nit would hit the BUG_ON() in ___bpf_prog_run() at run time.\n\n[    2.579196] BPF interpreter: unknown opcode a2 (imm: 0x0)\n[    2.579998] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[    2.580652] kernel BUG at kernel/bpf/core.c:2349!\n[    2.581314] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\n\nSet jit_required as true when arena map is used in the prog to disallow\ninterpreter fallback for arena-related 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Disallow interpreter fallback for arena-related insns","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Disallow interpreter fallback for arena-related insns\n\nSince the interpreter does not support the arena-related insns,\ninterpreter fallback should not be allowed for these insns in\ncore.c::__bpf_prog_select_runtime().\n\nCurrently, when the interpreter executes the arena ST/LDX/STX insns,\nit would hit the BUG_ON() in ___bpf_prog_run() at run time.\n\n[    2.579196] BPF interpreter: unknown opcode a2 (imm: 0x0)\n[    2.579998] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[    2.580652] kernel BUG at kernel/bpf/core.c:2349!\n[    2.581314] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\n\nSet jit_required as true when arena map is used in the prog to disallow\ninterpreter fallback for arena-related 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