CVE-2026-97978 (GCVE-0-2026-97978)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-25 10:23 – Updated: 2026-10-21 12:53
VLAI
Title
eth: ice: don't dereference pointers from TP_printk()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: ice: don't dereference pointers from TP_printk() After forwarding net-next during the v7.3 merge window we started seeing: TRACE EVENT ERROR: Event ice_tx_dim_work has double dereference in TP_printk: REC->q_vector->tx.tx_ring->q_index WARNING: kernel/trace/trace_events.c:420 at test_double_dereference.cold+0x39/0x4b this is due to extra checks added in tracing subsystem in commit b5cc230af5e5 ("tracing: Warn when an event dereferences a pointer in TP_printk()"). Printing happens long after the event was recorded, by which point the pointers may be invalid (the ring or the dim instance). Copy the eight scalars into the event instead.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6641 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 3089cf6d3caa1eb344aac05c875f4aeaf891552d , < 385aa7dbc6af11d90a5dd1261dbe75950eb7ca93 (git)
Affected: 3089cf6d3caa1eb344aac05c875f4aeaf891552d , < ae230874e3ba27e975a9bb21a6ffd05d6a2ea318 (git)
Affected: 3089cf6d3caa1eb344aac05c875f4aeaf891552d , < 0b0d2f9db2406aa541a8bc3737f4f4aae1cafde9 (git)
Affected: 3089cf6d3caa1eb344aac05c875f4aeaf891552d , < c42db35518bb0eae42ec955520eee0aa94a4a6fe (git)
Affected: 3089cf6d3caa1eb344aac05c875f4aeaf891552d , < b8bf9bfda5f62e11444e483c2b4aaff90c5cfc6b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.111 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.53 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.7 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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