Bug 2516433 (CVE-2026-72385) - CVE-2026-72385 kernel: tracing/fprobe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in fprobe_fgraph_entry()
Summary: CVE-2026-72385 kernel: tracing/fprobe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in fprobe...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72385
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:12 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-18 10:35 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:12:17 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing/fprobe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in fprobe_fgraph_entry()

fprobe_fgraph_entry() sizes a shadow-stack reservation in one walk of
the per-ip fprobe list and fills it in a second walk, both under
rcu_read_lock() only. A fprobe registered on an already-live ip can
become visible between the two walks, so the fill walk processes an
exit_handler the sizing walk did not count and used runs past
reserved_words. If the sizing walk counted nothing, fgraph_data is NULL
and the first write_fprobe_header() faults:

  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ...
  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
  RIP: 0010:fprobe_fgraph_entry+0xa38/0xf10 kernel/trace/fprobe.c:167
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   function_graph_enter_regs+0x44c/0xa10 kernel/trace/fgraph.c:677
   ftrace_graph_func+0xc5/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:671
   __kernel_text_address+0x9/0x40 kernel/extable.c:78
   arch_stack_walk+0x117/0x170 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26
   kmem_cache_free+0x188/0x580 mm/slub.c:6378
   tcp_data_queue+0x18d/0x6550 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5590
   [...]
   </TASK>

The list cannot be frozen across the two walks, so skip a node that does
not fit the reservation and count it as missed.


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