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CVE-2025-39829

trace/fgraph: Fix the warning caused by missing unregister notifier

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.6.160, 6.12.45, 6.16.5
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: trace/fgraph: Fix the warning caused by missing unregister notifier This warning was triggered during testing on v6.16: notifier callback ftrace_suspend_notifier_call already registered WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 86 at kernel/notifier.c:23 notifier_chain_register+0x44/0xb0 ... Call Trace: <TASK> blocking_notifier_chain_register+0x34/0x60 register_ftrace_graph+0x330/0x410 ftrace_profile_write+0x1e9/0x340 vfs_write+0xf8/0x420 ? filp_flush+0x8a/0xa0 ? filp_close+0x1f/0x30 ? do_dup2+0xaf/0x160 ksys_write+0x65/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f When writing to the function_profile_enabled interface, the notifier was not unregistered after start_graph_tracing failed, causing a warning the next time function_profile_enabled was written. Fixed by adding unregister_pm_notifier in the exception path.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 4a2b8dda3f8705880ec7408135645602d5590f51 · fixed in aa977309397fe2438801b1ca1ce7bc4106d8e985; From 4a2b8dda3f8705880ec7408135645602d5590f51 · fixed in 2a2deb9f8df70480050351ac27041f19bb9e718b; From 4a2b8dda3f8705880ec7408135645602d5590f51 · fixed in 000aa47a51233fd38a629b029478e0278e1e9fbe; From 4a2b8dda3f8705880ec7408135645602d5590f51 · fixed in edede7a6dcd7435395cf757d053974aaab6ab1c2

  • Linux Linux

    2.6.30

  • KernelLinux

    From 2.6.30 · fixed in 6.6.160; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.45; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.16.5

References 4

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