UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-68146
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ftrace: Add global mutex to serialize trace_parser access In ftrace, the trace_parser stru
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ftrace: Add global mutex to serialize trace_parser access
In ftrace, the trace_parser structure is allocated and initialized when
a trace file is opened, and is subsequently used across write and release
handlers to parse user input.
The affected handler paths and their specific functions are:
- Open paths: ftrace_regex_open(), ftrace_graph_open()
- Write paths: ftrace_regex_write(), ftrace_graph_write()
- Release paths: ftrace_regex_release(), ftrace_graph_release()
If userspace opens a trace file descriptor and shares it across multiple
threads, concurrent write calls will race on the parser's internal state,
specifically the 'idx', 'cont', and 'buffer' fields, leading to corrupted
input or undefined behavior.
Fix this by adding a global mutex, parser_lock, to serialize all access
to trace_parser across write and release paths, preventing concurrent
corruption of parser state.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d0dd138a06c782f8b755cd1b6f9909494514ce1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65bf73bee1a4f3722208ae46afc0fa5de76b9a0a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7720b63bcef3f54c7fe288774b720a227d54a306
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90be137813e1a5bdfd671e40fe28004fb959d3e4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e807c9193d9493c7a0d039158ebb955050a76df1
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-08-10 via NVD.
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