CVE-2026-99249

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CVE-2026-99249

Summary: pid_namespace: make zap_pid_ns_processes() freezable

Details: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pid_namespace: make zap_pid_ns_processes() freezable When the init of a pid namespace exits, zap_pid_ns_processes() waits until all other pids in the namespace are freed. A tracer outside the namespace that does not reap its traced zombies keeps those pids allocated, so this wait has no upper bound, and while it lasts every suspend attempt fails: Freezing user space processes failed after 20.006 seconds (2 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=0): Neither wait is freezable. The first loop sleeps in do_wait(), which returns -ERESTARTSYS on the freezer's fake signal; the loop then clears TIF_SIGPENDING and waits again without ever freezing. The final loop sleeps in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, and since nothing clears TIF_SIGPENDING there, schedule() returns immediately after the first freeze attempt and the task spins until the wait ends. Sleep in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_FREEZABLE in do_wait(), so that the freezer can freeze tasks waiting there directly, and in TASK_IDLE | TASK_FREEZABLE in the final loop, like coredump_task_exit() does. This was hit with Chromium-based browsers: crashpad ptrace-attaches the threads of a crashed renderer, which is a pid namespace init, and does not reap those killed during the dump.

References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/064a6761d6f6ac55d090d3eaca649577ee736713, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e10b8a74f55b5aae33db105d3e2d3ae759c865a, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b47107f1a80c809c80093e872bcaccdbae13db4, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7deb5770840339fe88755bf27b92f74edc26ee87, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81933038f5e273d17ed22792f906889393b204c5, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8dafad7de9ede813af2d48cc04b7c88fef16682, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/99xxx/CVE-2026-99249.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-99249, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git