CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68146
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-08-23
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ftrace: Add global mutex to serialize trace_parser access
In ftrace, the trace_parser structure is allocated and initialized when
a trace file is opened, and is subsequently used across write and release
handlers to parse user input.
The affected handler paths and their specific functions are:
- Open paths: ftrace_regex_open(), ftrace_graph_open()
- Write paths: ftrace_regex_write(), ftrace_graph_write()
- Release paths: ftrace_regex_release(), ftrace_graph_release()
If userspace opens a trace file descriptor and shares it across multiple
threads, concurrent write calls will race on the parser's internal state,
specifically the 'idx', 'cont', and 'buffer' fields, leading to corrupted
input or undefined behavior.
Fix this by adding a global mutex, parser_lock, to serialize all access
to trace_parser across write and release paths, preventing concurrent
corruption of parser state.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1474fe4453505b6be720b5bb94be1c927de3314a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d0dd138a06c782f8b755cd1b6f9909494514ce1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65bf73bee1a4f3722208ae46afc0fa5de76b9a0a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7720b63bcef3f54c7fe288774b720a227d54a306 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90be137813e1a5bdfd671e40fe28004fb959d3e4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a29bc20ea5f0cb79c6287f2c6182c5eeb8e6c01f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db76744d588086695371ecdd982694395628ba48 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e807c9193d9493c7a0d039158ebb955050a76df1 git.kernel.org