CVE-2026-89988

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kprobes: Protect kprobe_blacklist with RCU __within_kprobe_blacklist() traverses kprobe_blacklist without holding kprobe_mutex. When a module is unloaded, kprobe_remove_area_blacklist() removes blacklist entries and immediately frees them with kfree(). A concurrent call to within_kprobe_blacklist() can therefore dereference freed memory. Furthermore, within_kprobe_blacklist() can be called in atomic or non-preemptible contexts where the sleeping kprobe_mutex cannot be taken. Protect kprobe_blacklist with RCU. Use guard(rcu)() and list_for_each_entry_rcu() for traversal, list_add_tail_rcu() for insertions, list_del_rcu() for deletions, and kfree_rcu() to reclaim entries safely after a grace period.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c4256196b3a105307e2235fbfd85e768bbcdd0f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/518d9b5568bb06f86e4434f7a30faa9612ea91ad
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5da247e4d1e8661d4d6f997101d59967e8994e32
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/630ed8734a02b992e8a97538179c2ece42c5210f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e62cf983a2bd547e6bbd3f935539233e5f97f8f