CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98032
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Fix subbuf resize races with trace_pipe_raw readers
Concurrent subbuffer resizes may crash trace_pipe_raw readers or leak
uninitialized memory to userspace due to stale size values.
Modify ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() to handle the resizing of an
existing buffer_data_read_page if necessary and add a new
ring_buffer_read_page_size(). This new function enables ring-buffer
buffer_data_read_page users to not call the racy
ring_buffer_subbuf_size_get(). This makes the spare_size member of
ftrace_buffer_info redundant.
Finally, handle buffer_data_read_page/reader_page order discrepancy in
ring_buffer_read_page(). On a mismatch simply copy manually the data to
the buffer_data_read_page.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f30b2cd4eba45c05f822f03f1b0f4077d6d4dc3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/574efd988d116bd56ac688ab2d64e06ba0da982a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75b37b8369778b69ce9738d1c97685a1615cb252 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dae8dda341d2d9034a90d59e8a7d502e1263813f git.kernel.org