In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Fix use-after-free freeing trigger private data
Commit 61d445af0a7c ("tracing: Add bulk garbage collection of freeing event_trigger_data") moved the kfree() of event_trigger_data to a kthread that runs tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() before freeing. That removed the synchronization the trigger .free callbacks used to get implicitly and inline from trigger_data_free().
event_hist_trigger_free(), event_hist_trigger_named_free() and event_enable_trigger_free() free their satellite data (hist_data, cmd_ops, enable_data) right after trigger_data_free() returns. With the synchronization now deferred to the kthread, a concurrent tracepoint handler can still reach that data through the list_del_rcu()'d trigger, causing a use-after-free.
The histogram teardown must stay synchronous: remove_hist_vars() and unregister_field_var_hists() have to detach a synthetic event from the histogram before the trigger-removal write returns, otherwise a following command races in and the synthetic-event removal fails with -EBUSY, as the trigger-synthetic-eprobe.tc selftest catches. Make those callbacks wait with the correct barrier - tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(), matching the free kthread - before freeing.
The enable trigger has no such synchronous requirement, and a blocking synchronize there would re-serialize the path that commit deliberately deferred. Give it an optional private_data_free() callback that the free kthread runs after its grace period, and free enable_data from there.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
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| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1016-azure-fdeUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1015-oemUpgrade linux-image-aws-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-38-generic-64kUpgrade linux-image-aws-64kUpgrade linux-image-genericUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-38-realtime-64kUpgrade linux-image-gkeUpgrade linux-image-oem-26.04aUpgrade linux-image-virtual-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1013-oracle-64kUpgrade linux-image-oracle-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1017-azureUpgrade linux-image-ibmUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1013-oracleUpgrade linux-image-aws-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-azure-fde-7.0Upgrade linux-image-realtime-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1008-gkeUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1015-ibmUpgrade linux-image-ibm-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1008-gke-64kUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1014-gcp-64kUpgrade linux-image-gcp-64kUpgrade linux-image-azureUpgrade linux-image-azure-lts-26.04Upgrade linux-image-generic-64kUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-38-realtimeUpgrade linux-image-oem-26.04Upgrade linux-image-generic-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-virtual-hwe-24.04Upgrade linux-image-oracle-64kUpgrade linux-image-gke-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-realtime-7.0Upgrade linux-image-generic-7.0Upgrade linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24.04Upgrade linux-image-azure-fdeUpgrade linux-image-azure-7.0Upgrade linux-image-gcpUpgrade linux-image-gke-64k-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-gcp-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-realtime-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-gcp-7.0Upgrade linux-image-oracle-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1014-gcpUpgrade linux-image-virtualUpgrade linux-image-gke-7.0Upgrade linux-image-generic-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04Upgrade linux-image-realtimeUpgrade linux-image-gke-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-oem-7.0Upgrade linux-image-realtime-64kUpgrade linux-image-virtual-7.0Upgrade linux-image-oracleUpgrade linux-image-realtime-64k-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1014-aws-64kUpgrade linux-image-azure-fde-lts-26.04Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1014-awsUpgrade linux-image-gke-64kUpgrade linux-image-awsUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-38-generic | Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 |
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