tracing/histograms: Fix memory leak problem

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing/histograms: Fix memory leak problem This reverts commit 46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac. As commit 46bbe5c671e0 ("tracing: fix double free") said, the "double free" problem reported by clang static analyzer is: > In parse_var_defs() if there is a problem allocating > var_defs.expr, the earlier var_defs.name is freed. > This free is duplicated by free_var_defs() which frees > the rest of the list. However, if there is a problem allocating N-th var_defs.expr: + in parse_var_defs(), the freed 'earlier var_defs.name' is actually the N-th var_defs.name; + then in free_var_defs(), the names from 0th to (N-1)-th are freed; IF ALLOCATING PROBLEM HAPPENED HERE!!! -+ \ | 0th 1th (N-1)-th N-th V +-------------+-------------+-----+-------------+----------- var_defs: | name | expr | name | expr | ... | name | expr | name | /// +-------------+-------------+-----+-------------+----------- These two frees don't act on same name, so there was no "double free" problem before. Conversely, after that commit, we get a "memory leak" problem because the above "N-th var_defs.name" is not freed. If enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK and inject a fault at where the N-th var_defs.expr allocated, then execute on shell like: $ echo 'hist:key=call_site:val=$v1,$v2:v1=bytes_req,v2=bytes_alloc' > \ /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger Then kmemleak reports: unreferenced object 0xffff8fb100ef3518 (size 8): comm "bash", pid 196, jiffies 4295681690 (age 28.538s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 76 31 00 00 b1 8f ff ff v1...... backtrace: [<0000000038fe4895>] kstrdup+0x2d/0x60 [<00000000c99c049a>] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x206f/0x20e0 [<00000000ae70d2cc>] trigger_process_regex+0xc0/0x110 [<0000000066737a4c>] event_trigger_write+0x75/0xd0 [<000000007341e40c>] vfs_write+0xbb/0x2a0 [<0000000087fde4c2>] ksys_write+0x59/0xd0 [<00000000581e9cdf>] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80 [<00000000cf3b065c>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Timeline

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.27% · top 80% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

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

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Weakness

• CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-401 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Linux · Linux

  • affected 240dd5118a9e0454f280ffeae63f22bd14735733 – < eb622d5580b9e2ff694f62da6410618bd73853cb
  • affected e92c490f104993cea35e5f5d5108ac12df1850ac – < ecc6dec12c33aa92c086cd702af9f544ddaf3c75
  • affected 46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac – < 78a1400c42ee11197eb1f0f85ba51df9a4fdfff0
  • affected 46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac – < 22eeff55679d9e7c0f768c79bfbd83e2f8142d89
  • affected 46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac – < 4d453eb5e1eec89971aa5b3262857ee26cfdffd3
  • affected 46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac – < 7edc3945bdce9c39198a10d6129377a5c53559c2
  • affected e3a23511638a3dcf0275c1e71a46d1ca2e2e6788
  • affected 4.19.149 – < 4.19.253
  • affected 5.4.69 – < 5.4.207
  • affected 5.8.13 – < 5.9

• Linux · Linux

  • affected 5.9
  • unaffected < 5.9
  • unaffected 4.19.253 – ≤ 4.19.*
  • unaffected 5.4.207 – ≤ 5.4.*
  • unaffected 5.10.132 – ≤ 5.10.*
  • unaffected 5.15.56 – ≤ 5.15.*
  • unaffected 5.18.13 – ≤ 5.18.*
  • unaffected 5.19 – ≤ *

References (6)

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb622d5580b9e2ff694f62da6410618bd73853cb (opens in a new tab)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecc6dec12c33aa92c086cd702af9f544ddaf3c75 (opens in a new tab)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78a1400c42ee11197eb1f0f85ba51df9a4fdfff0 (opens in a new tab)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22eeff55679d9e7c0f768c79bfbd83e2f8142d89 (opens in a new tab)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d453eb5e1eec89971aa5b3262857ee26cfdffd3 (opens in a new tab)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7edc3945bdce9c39198a10d6129377a5c53559c2 (opens in a new tab)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 23 May 2026, 15:22 UTC.