locking/rtmutex: Skip remove_waiter() when waiter is not enqueued

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SUSE CVE-2026-53163

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: locking/rtmutex: Skip removewaiter when waiter is not enqueued syzbot triggered the following splat in removewaiter via FUTEXCMPREQUEUEPI: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range 0x0000000000000a88-0x0000000000000a8f...

CVE-2026-53163

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: locking/rtmutex: Skip removewaiter when waiter is not enqueued syzbot triggered the following splat in removewaiter via FUTEXCMPREQUEUEPI: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range 0x0000000000000a88-0x0000000000000a8f...

CVE-2026-53163 locking/rtmutex: Skip remove_waiter() when waiter is not enqueued

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: locking/rtmutex: Skip removewaiter when waiter is not enqueued syzbot triggered the following splat in removewaiter via FUTEXCMPREQUEUEPI: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range 0x0000000000000a88-0x0000000000000a8f...

CVE-2026-53163 locking/rtmutex: Skip remove_waiter() when waiter is not enqueued

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: locking/rtmutex: Skip removewaiter when waiter is not enqueued syzbot triggered the following splat in removewaiter via FUTEXCMPREQUEUEPI: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range 0x0000000000000a88-0x0000000000000a8f...

CVE-2026-53163

CVE-2026-53163 affects the Linux kernel rtmutex/futex path. The issue arises when task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() fails to arm the waiter on deadlock detection, leaving waiter->task nil, and the code path can reach remove_waiter() via rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock(). The root cause is tied to how the wa...