CVE-2025-68329
tracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_close for split VMAs
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 22, 2025
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Reserved
- Dec 16, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_close for split VMAs
When a VMA is split (e.g., by partial munmap or MAP_FIXED), the kernel calls vm_ops->close on each portion. For trace buffer mappings, this results in ring_buffer_unmap() being called multiple times while ring_buffer_map() was only called once.
This causes ring_buffer_unmap() to return -ENODEV on subsequent calls because user_mapped is already 0, triggering a WARN_ON.
Trace buffer mappings cannot support partial mappings because the ring buffer structure requires the complete buffer including the meta page.
Fix this by adding a may_split callback that returns -EINVAL to prevent VMA splits entirely.
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Affected Products
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