CVE-2026-89750

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing/user_events: Clear copied tracing state before fork duplication

dup_task_struct() copies user_event_mm from the parent into the child, without grabbing a reference to it. user_event_mm_dup() should replace it, but it leaves that copied pointer unmodified if user_event_mm_alloc() fails.

When the child exits, user_event_mm_remove() decrements a reference the child never owned, which ultimately frees user_event_mm, while the parent still as a stale pointer to it. This creates a UAF, which KASAN reports as:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in
current_user_event_mm+0x51/0x1d0 Write of size 4 at addr
ffff888005010d30 by task init/44

Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 kasan_report+0xce/0x100
 kasan_check_range+0x10f/0x1e0
 current_user_event_mm+0x51/0x1d0
 user_events_ioctl+0x82e/0x15c0
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x139/0x1c0
 do_syscall_64+0xce/0x450
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Allocated by task 44:
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x180/0x3a0
 user_event_mm_alloc+0x3c/0x1f0
 current_user_event_mm+0x88/0x1d0

Freed by task 42:
 __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70
 kfree+0x13a/0x390
 process_one_work+0x696/0xf90
 worker_thread+0x420/0xba0

The fix simply clears the copied pointer before any possible failure. In case of failure, the child then has nothing to free.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63b39e49a4c9d68e010e96b26fc7374f0864f2b1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25a0758cf6bdbfddac2be71124c9bd0692f4b0b1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b799f67119aff179719a0b1e12441ebbdaaf62f9
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/390f6bd8583d177029d9df4bea6667509e55a765

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