CVE-2026-90359

bpf: Reject >8 byte return values on return-reading trampoline paths

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 21, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

bpf: Reject >8 byte return values on return-reading trampoline paths

btf_distill_func_proto() builds the function model used for the fentry/fexit/fmod_ret/fsession trampolines and struct_ops. It has accepted a 16-byte __int128 return value since the trampoline was introduced: __get_type_size() returns the integer's type size, and the return-type check only rejected ret < 0.

But the BPF trampoline preserves only 8 bytes of the return value (RAX on x86, i.e. R0). For an attach type that reads the target's return value the second half (RDX / R3) is neither saved nor restored, so a program attached to a function returning a 16-byte value corrupts the value seen by the real caller and itself observes only half of it. struct_ops trampolines have the same limitation.

This affects the attach types that read the target's return value: fexit, fmod_ret and fsession (plus the _multi variants of fexit and fsession), and struct_ops. fentry/fentry_multi run before the target returns and are unaffected.

Reject a >8 byte return value for these attach types in bpf_check_attach_target() and bpf_check_attach_btf_id_multi(), and for struct_ops in bpf_struct_ops_desc_init().

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • fec56f5890d93fc2ed74166c397dc186b1c25951 to before de54ba33690d2dd3c4aa686c9693505644285b0bAffected
  • fec56f5890d93fc2ed74166c397dc186b1c25951 to before 9a9e902bd0556052534641f7d5f868c6dc4b84aeAffected
  • fec56f5890d93fc2ed74166c397dc186b1c25951 to before d36ac53fc83baf843c51b7afd6d2471f36b713d8Affected
  • fec56f5890d93fc2ed74166c397dc186b1c25951 to before c48796aa6c392cde93946e5d5a9a1f1b1cf72febAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.5Affected
  • before 5.5Not affected
  • 6.12.114 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.57 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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