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Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published Sep 16, 2025· Updated May 12, 2026

CVE-2025-39813

CVE-2025-39813

Description

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

ftrace: Fix potential warning in trace_printk_seq during ftrace_dump

When calling ftrace_dump_one() concurrently with reading trace_pipe, a WARN_ON_ONCE() in trace_printk_seq() can be triggered due to a race condition.

The issue occurs because:

CPU0 (ftrace_dump) CPU1 (reader) echo z > /proc/sysrq-trigger

!trace_empty(&iter) trace_iterator_reset(&iter) <- len = size = 0 cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe trace_find_next_entry_inc(&iter) __find_next_entry ring_buffer_empty_cpu <- all empty return NULL

trace_printk_seq(&iter.seq) WARN_ON_ONCE(s->seq.len >= s->seq.size)

In the context between trace_empty() and trace_find_next_entry_inc() during ftrace_dump, the ring buffer data was consumed by other readers. This caused trace_find_next_entry_inc to return NULL, failing to populate iter.seq. At this point, due to the prior trace_iterator_reset, both iter.seq.len and iter.seq.size were set to 0. Since they are equal, the WARN_ON_ONCE condition is triggered.

Move the trace_printk_seq() into the if block that checks to make sure the return value of trace_find_next_entry_inc() is non-NULL in ftrace_dump_one(), ensuring the 'iter.seq' is properly populated before subsequent operations.

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