CVE-2026-99103

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

workqueue: Fix unbound pool lifetime for pending pwqs

KASAN reports a use-after-free of an unbound worker_pool in
node_activate_pending_pwq():

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_trylock+0x6d/0x120
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880089ce000 by task kworker/u22:0/318

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 318 Comm: kworker/u22:0 Not tainted 7.2.0 #1 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: 0x0 (flush-8:0)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70
print_report+0xce/0x610
kasan_report+0xce/0x100
_raw_spin_trylock+0x6d/0x120
pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x4b4/0xcb0
process_one_work+0x921/0x11a0
worker_thread+0x4d0/0xd20
kthread+0x2de/0x3c0
ret_from_fork+0x3aa/0x620
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>

Allocated by task 311:
alloc_pwq+0x439/0xca0
apply_wqattrs_prepare+0x75e/0xd10
apply_workqueue_attrs_locked+0x44/0xa0
wq_nice_store+0x350/0x450

Freed by task 0:
kfree+0x127/0x3b0
rcu_core+0x523/0x1780
handle_softirqs+0x1b3/0x610

Last potentially related work creation:
put_unbound_pool+0x3f3/0x7d0
pwq_release_workfn+0x494/0x8e0
kthread_worker_fn+0x1ff/0x790

Canceling the last inactive work skips pwq_dec_nr_active(), so an empty
pwq can remain on pending_pwqs when its refcnt reaches zero.
pwq_release_workfn() currently puts the pool before removing that pwq.
If this drops the last pool reference, the pool can be RCU-freed while
the pwq remains reachable, and node_activate_pending_pwq() may trylock
the freed pool->lock.

Remove the pwq from pending_pwqs before putting the pool.