High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 2, 2026
CVE-2026-99237
CVE-2026-99237
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Hold trace_types_lock when resetting last boot data from readers
update_last_data_if_empty() is called from tracing_open() with O_TRUNC, tracing_read_pipe() and tracing_buffers_read() without trace_types_lock. Two readers can both pass the LAST_BOOT test and free module_delta twice, and a module notifier can update module_delta while it is being freed.
Take trace_types_lock in those paths and keep the callers that already hold it on an unlocked variant.
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