CVE-2026-99247 (GCVE-0-2026-99247)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-11-03 11:18 – Updated: 2026-11-03 11:18
VLAI
Title
tracing: Do not initialize tracefs work if tracing is disabled
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Do not initialize tracefs work if tracing is disabled If trace buffer allocation fails during early boot (e.g. in early_trace_init() -> allocate_trace_buffers()), tracing_disabled is left set to 1 and the global trace array events list remains uninitialized. Later during boot, tracer_init_tracefs() (invoked via fs_initcall) queues tracerfs_init_work asynchronously without checking if tracing was disabled. When tracer_init_tracefs_work_func() runs, it calls event_trace_init() and init_tracer_tracefs(&global_trace, NULL) unconditionally. This leads to __find_event_file() dereferencing an uninitialized tr->events list, causing an early boot NULL pointer dereference Oops: BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000010 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000485be0 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 7 [#1] ... NIP [c000000000485be0] __find_event_file+0x70/0x3c0 LR [c000000000448874] init_tracer_tracefs+0x274/0xc80 Call Trace: init_tracer_tracefs+0x274/0xc80 tracer_init_tracefs_work_func+0x50/0x320 process_one_work+0x1e8/0x5c0 worker_thread+0x1dc/0x3d0 kthread+0x194/0x1b0 start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18 Check tracing_disabled at the beginning of tracer_init_tracefs_work_func() and return immediately if tracing is disabled or failed to initialize, preventing the crash.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6640 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 6621a7004684bfcff5af4c8e4d37989941f42a6b , < e8665e884e076d894f3eed8b9ea28e37a6448604 (git)
Affected: 6621a7004684bfcff5af4c8e4d37989941f42a6b , < e8cfcd7e60eaa3b0dea4d71c64499604e7081736 (git)
Affected: 6621a7004684bfcff5af4c8e4d37989941f42a6b , < afd38b10b1c6a5c5d6952b15b990596dab9684e6 (git)
Affected: 6621a7004684bfcff5af4c8e4d37989941f42a6b , < 813e18881c6472eb229a63180ff42c808e3e949b (git)
Affected: 6621a7004684bfcff5af4c8e4d37989941f42a6b , < 7539c61f522ff693d9565a0411386c2236e776cd (git)
Affected: 6621a7004684bfcff5af4c8e4d37989941f42a6b , < b3b974008388ab59e44d764ba7a63c988fec2524 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.191 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.161 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.115 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.59 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.13 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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