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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 26, 2024· Updated May 12, 2026

CVE-2024-43890

CVE-2024-43890

Description

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

tracing: Fix overflow in get_free_elt()

"tracing_map->next_elt" in get_free_elt() is at risk of overflowing.

Once it overflows, new elements can still be inserted into the tracing_map even though the maximum number of elements (max_elts) has been reached. Continuing to insert elements after the overflow could result in the tracing_map containing "tracing_map->max_size" elements, leaving no empty entries. If any attempt is made to insert an element into a full tracing_map using __tracing_map_insert(), it will cause an infinite loop with preemption disabled, leading to a CPU hang problem.

Fix this by preventing any further increments to "tracing_map->next_elt" once it reaches "tracing_map->max_elt".

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