high · 7.8

ftrace: Take trace_array reference before accessing its ftrace_ops

CVE-2026-90002 · published 16 Sept 2026

How serious is it

  • Severity: high, CVSS score 7.8 out of 10.
  • No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
  • Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  • No public exploit in Exploit-DB.

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Who is affected

  • Linux Linux: 591dffdade9f07692a7dd3ed16830ec24e901ece to < 29266da8ee1d9be656b1f22460c49538e1930658, 591dffdade9f07692a7dd3ed16830ec24e901ece to < 177cd8966325f0ffffa3c9381f9e0422019a3973, 591dffdade9f07692a7dd3ed16830ec24e901ece to < 83fd7eca5ab0d3ac3f23bff889175d847e21af06, 591dffdade9f07692a7dd3ed16830ec24e901ece to < cee8f286794df916553d8d445eac5c323ec5b0f8
  • Linux Linux: 3.15

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How to fix

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The advisory

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ftrace: Take trace_array reference before accessing its ftrace_ops The trace instance files set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace was updated to work with specific trace instances (trace_arrays). The issue is that when these files are opened, there is a small race window where it will use the ftrace_ops from the inode->private pointer to get a reference to the trace_array and then take its reference. The problem is that the ftrace_ops itself could be freed. If the rmdir on the instance happens at the same time the set_ftrace_filter file is opened, the rmdir could have also freed the ftrace_ops and referencing it will cause a use-after-free bug and crash the kernel. Instead, pass in the trace_array as the file private data (NULL for the top level instance), and then pass both the trace_array and the ftrace_ops to the ftrace_regex_open() function. If the trace_array is NULL, then it just uses the ftrace_ops without the need to take its reference (like normal). If the ftrace_ops is NULL, that is only the case for the top level instance and the global_ops can be used. This allows the trace_array to have its reference incremented before touching the ftrace_ops that could also be freed when the instance is.

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References

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