ring-buffer: Fix subbuf resize race with ring buffer readers (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-89771
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.12 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ring-buffer: Fix subbuf resize race with ring buffer readers trace_buffer subbuf_size is read lockless in ring_buffer_read_page() and ring_buffer_read_start(), while it can simultaneously be resized with ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(). Instead of trace_buffer::subbuf_size, use bpage::order in ring_buffer_read_start() and ring_buffer_read_page(). In ring_buffer_read_start(), even with resize_disabled, there is still a possibility of a race with a buffer modification. Hold the trace_buffer mutex to synchronise with any pending ring buffer order modification. trace_buffer::subbuf_size is now actually useless, remove it. Also, create accessors rb_subbuf_capacity() and rb_page_capacity() which return the actual size available for storing events, while rb_subbuf_size() returns the actual subbuf page-size.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected f9b94daa542a8d2532f0930f01cd9aec2d19621b < 6d666f0b8b36c0765cf19fbe6de5a7ba5a73aad9 ; affected f9b94daa542a8d2532f0930f01cd9aec2d19621b < 50f4a793c4ff24826efb0ac700989a5063cc53df ; affected f9b94daa542a8d2532f0930f01cd9aec2d19621b < 0c7c517827a453128a8f58bfd849546a29813b27 ; affected f9b94daa542a8d2532f0930f01cd9aec2d19621b < 8a5f63637890f03177146efddaba5ec7a1b4d61f
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.8 ; unaffected 0 < 6.8 ; unaffected 6.12.109 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.50 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.2.4 ≤ 7.2.* ; unaffected 7.3 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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