CVE-2026-72385

tracing/fprobe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in fprobe_fgraph_entry()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

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

tracing/fprobe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in fprobe_fgraph_entry()

fprobe_fgraph_entry() sizes a shadow-stack reservation in one walk of the per-ip fprobe list and fills it in a second walk, both under rcu_read_lock() only. A fprobe registered on an already-live ip can become visible between the two walks, so the fill walk processes an exit_handler the sizing walk did not count and used runs past reserved_words. If the sizing walk counted nothing, fgraph_data is NULL and the first write_fprobe_header() faults:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ... KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] RIP: 0010:fprobe_fgraph_entry+0xa38/0xf10 kernel/trace/fprobe.c:167 Call Trace: <TASK> function_graph_enter_regs+0x44c/0xa10 kernel/trace/fgraph.c:677 ftrace_graph_func+0xc5/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:671 __kernel_text_address+0x9/0x40 kernel/extable.c:78 arch_stack_walk+0x117/0x170 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26 kmem_cache_free+0x188/0x580 mm/slub.c:6378 tcp_data_queue+0x18d/0x6550 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5590 [...] </TASK>

The list cannot be frozen across the two walks, so skip a node that does not fit the reservation and count it as missed.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 4346ba1604093305a287e08eb465a9c15ba05b80 to before 62988204162fc382cfc7d9a185d40a751261e3a3Affected
  • 4346ba1604093305a287e08eb465a9c15ba05b80 to before d655cca1c6e67eb081214d37eb231a869ead2f97Affected
  • 4346ba1604093305a287e08eb465a9c15ba05b80 to before 367c49d6e283c17b56a31e7a8d964a079244264cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.14Affected
  • before 6.14Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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