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CVE-2026-90066 Details

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-multi-modify ftrace_direct_multi_init() assigns kthread_run()'s return value to simple_tsk without an IS_ERR() check. When kthread_run() fails it returns ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM), but init still returns 0, so the module loads with simple_tsk holding an error pointer. On unload, ftrace_direct_multi_exit() then passes that ERR_PTR to kthread_stop(), leading to a null-pointer-dereference. Check the return value of kthread_run() with IS_ERR(); on failure, unregister the ftrace direct call and propagate the error code.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/626614df9080d7052fbe24dc90b5434717ab7a9f	kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6727b7618f49401acf373fa3ec5712e2ec52e5cf	kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a96b9f6d5ba23dbce66c8a4a242effd4c01a830	kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98b7b2a29ae87937aa02ab9391543ef8c602cd94	kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf839636911d8313f3ecd098329fd0b96499e4cf	kernel.org

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Affected Products

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Change History

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