CVE-2026-99160

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ring-buffer: Do not show buffer_meta for CPUs without a buffer The per_cpu/cpuN/buffer_meta files are created for every possible CPU, but buffer->buffers[cpu] is only allocated once that CPU comes online. Reading the file of a CPU that never came online dereferences a NULL cpu_buffer in rbm_start(). Fail the open with -ENODEV when the CPU has no buffer, as the other per CPU ring buffer interfaces do.

Status

Received - 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2026-10-28

Last modified

2026-10-28

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8512d0312cc0ea83ca4511b164c29a138bbb0c21
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae670c1a24fb5ffb167f26358cf47a5f0abbd670
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f23cae09a4677a3f7c163a68388512cb231ff22