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CVE-2025-68329 - tracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_close for split VMAs

CVE ID : CVE-2025-68329
Published : Dec. 22, 2025, 5:16 p.m. | 1 hour, 34 minutes ago
Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_close for split VMAs When a VMA is split (e.g., by partial munmap or MAP_FIXED), the kernel calls vm_ops->close on each portion. For trace buffer mappings, this results in ring_buffer_unmap() being called multiple times while ring_buffer_map() was only called once. This causes ring_buffer_unmap() to return -ENODEV on subsequent calls because user_mapped is already 0, triggering a WARN_ON. Trace buffer mappings cannot support partial mappings because the ring buffer structure requires the complete buffer including the meta page. Fix this by adding a may_split callback that returns -EINVAL to prevent VMA splits entirely.
Severity: 0.0 | NA
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