UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-80661
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ufs: core: tracing: Do not dereference pointers in TP_printk() The trace events in drivers
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ufs: core: tracing: Do not dereference pointers in TP_printk()
The trace events in drivers/ufs/core/ufs_trace.h were converted to take a
pointer to the hba structure as an argument for the tracepoint and then in
TP_printk() the printing of the dev_name from the ring buffer was
converted to using the dev dereferenced pointer from the hba saved
pointer.
This is not allowed as the TP_printk() is executed at the time the trace
event is read from /sys/kernel/tracing/trace file. That can happen
literally, seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, days, or even months later!
There is no guarantee that the hba pointer will still exist by the time it
is dereferenced when the "trace" file is read.
Instead, save the device name from the hba pointer at the time the
tracepoint is called and place it into the ring buffer event. Then the
TP_printk() can read the name directly from the ring buffer and remove the
possibility that it will read a freed pointer and crash the kernel.
This was detected when testing the trace event code that looks for
TP_printk() parameters doing illegal derferences[1]
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260630184836.74d477b6@gandalf.local.home/
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2510434307a224078302019e52ab3c863fbe87fb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/535fcf4b8a261fbb8cc4f91e4597343c135a90f2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e497fef9ad7e913f52de6f97e818f56915e96164
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-08-28 via NVD.
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