Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/ftrace: Relocate %rip-relative percpu refs in dynamic trampolines
With CONFIG_CALL_DEPTH_TRACKING enabled on an x86 retbleed-affected platform
(eg: Skylake), with retbleed=stuff, registering a dynamic ftrace trampoline
crashes on the first call into the traced function:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff88817ae18880
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 4b53067 P4D 4b53067 PUD 0
Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 187 Comm: usleep Not tainted 7.0.10 #243 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.17.0-2-2 04/01/2014
Code: 24 78 00 00 00 00 48 89 ea 48 89 54 24 20 48 8b b4 24 b8 00 00 00 48 8b bc 24 b0 00 00 00 48 89 bc 24 80 00 00 00 48 83 ef 05 <65> 48 c1 3d 1f a8 b6 02 05 48 8b 15 f6 00 00 00 4c 89 3c 24 4c 89
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? find_held_lock
? exc_page_fault
? lock_release
? __x64_sys_clock_nanosleep
? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare
? trace_hardirqs_on
__x64_sys_clock_nanosleep
do_syscall_64
? exc_page_fault
? call_depth_return_thunk
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
This small reproducer allows to easily trigger the crash:
# echo 'p __x64_sys_clock_nanosleep' > /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events
# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kprobes/p___x64_sys_clock_nanosleep_0/enable
# usleep 1
Monitoring the crash under GDB points to the exact instruction in charge of
incrementing the call depth:
sarq $5, %gs:__x86_call_depth(%rip)
This instruction matches the one inserted by the ftrace_regs_caller from
ftrace_64.S. This emitted code was likely working fine until the introduction
of
59bec00ace28 ("x86/percpu: Introduce %rip-relative addressing to PER_CPU_VAR()"):
it has made the call depth accounting addressing relative to $rip, instead of
being based on an absolute address.
As this code exact location depends on where the trampoline lives in memory,
the corresponding displacement needs to be adjusted at runtime to actually
correctly find the per-cpu __x86_call_depth value, otherwise the targeted
address is wrong, leading to the page fault seen above.
Fix the %rip-relative displacement of the copied CALL_DEPTH_ACCOUNT
instruction (from ftrace_regs_caller) by calling text_poke_apply_relocation(),
as it is done for example by the x86 BPF JIT compiler through
x86_call_depth_emit_accounting(). This corrects both CALL_DEPTH_ACCOUNT slots,
in ftrace_caller and ftrace_regs_caller.
[ bp: Massage. ]
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 6.9 | 6.12.93 |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | linux | 7.0.12-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | linux | 6.12.94-1 | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | linux | 7.0.0-28.28 | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | linux-aws +2 | 7.0.0-1009.9 | USN-8618-1 |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | linux-gcp +1 | 7.0.0-1008.8 | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | linux-gke | 7.0.0-1003.4 | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | linux-ibm +1 | 7.0.0-1010.10 | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | linux-nvidia | 7.0.0-1016.16 | USN-8663-1 |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | linux-nvidia-bos | 7.0.0-2016.16 | USN-8664-1 |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | linux-raspi | 7.0.0-1015.15 | USN-8618-1 |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | linux-riscv +1 | 7.0.0-28.28.1 | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | linux-azure-7.0 | 7.0.0-1014.14~24.04.1 | USN-8728-2 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | linux-azure-fde-7.0 | 7.0.0-1013.13~24.04.1 | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | linux-gcp-7.0 +1 | 7.0.0-1011.11~24.04.1 | USN-8728-3, USN-8728-1 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | linux-hwe-7.0 | 7.0.0-28.28~24.04.1 | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | linux-nvidia-7.0 | 7.0.0-1016.16~24.04.1 | USN-8663-1 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | linux-riscv +26 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | linux-riscv-7.0 | 7.0.0-28.28.1~24.04.3 | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | linux-riscv +32 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | linux-gke +28 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | linux-gcp +14 | No fix yet | — |
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | linux-hwe-edge | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS | linux-realtime-6.14 +1 | No fix yet | — |
SUSE
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLES for SAP 16.0 | kernel-64kb +8 | 6.12.0-160000.39.1 | SUSE-SU-2026:24235-1 |
| SLES for SAP 16.0 | kernel-default-base | 6.12.0-160000.39.1.160000.2.26 | SUSE-SU-2026:24235-1 |
| SLES 16.0 | kernel-64kb +8 | 6.12.0-160000.39.1 | SUSE-SU-2026:24235-1, SUSE-SU-2026:24197-1 |
| SLES 16.0 | kernel-default-base | 6.12.0-160000.39.1.160000.2.26 | SUSE-SU-2026:24235-1 |
| SLE Micro 6.2 | kernel-default-base | 6.12.0-160000.39.1.160000.2.26 | SUSE-SU-2026:24184-1 |
| SLE Micro 6.2 | kernel-rt +5 | 6.12.0-160000.39.1 | SUSE-SU-2026:24184-1, SUSE-SU-2026:24179-1 |
openSUSE
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | kernel-default-base | 6.12.0-160000.39.1.160000.2.25 | openSUSE-SU-2026:22091-1 |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | kernel-rt +11 | 6.12.0-160000.39.1 | openSUSE-SU-2026:22091-1 |
Amazon Linux
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 2023 | kernel-livepatch-6.18.35-68.127 +1 | 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 | ALAS2023-2026-1968, ALAS2023-2026-1881 |
| Amazon Linux 2023 | perf6.12 +11 | 1:6.12.94-123.174.amzn2023 | ALAS2023-2026-1968 |
| Amazon Linux 2023 | perf6.18 +12 | 1:6.18.35-68.127.amzn2023 | ALAS2023-2026-1881 |
Oracle Linux
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle Linux 9 | kernel-uek +34 | 6.12.0-206.104.3.3.el10uek | ELSA-2026-500248 |
Advisories 15
- WID-SEC-2026-2527 Linux Kernel: Mehrere Schwachstellen BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Nov 12, 2026
- USN-8728-1 linux-gcp-7.0 vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Nov 12, 2026
- USN-8728-2 linux-azure-7.0 vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Nov 12, 2026
- USN-8728-3 linux-oracle-7.0 vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Nov 12, 2026
- USN-8664-1 linux-nvidia-bos vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Nov 9, 2026
- USN-8663-1 linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-7.0 vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Nov 9, 2026
- USN-8618-1 linux-aws, linux-raspi vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Nov 9, 2026
- SUSE-SU-2026:24235-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Oct 21, 2026
- SUSE-SU-2026:24197-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Oct 21, 2026
- SUSE-SU-2026:24184-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Oct 20, 2026
- SUSE-SU-2026:24179-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Oct 20, 2026
- openSUSE-SU-2026:22091-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Oct 19, 2026
- ELSA-2026-500248 Important: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (Oracle Linux 9) Oracle Linux Security Advisories (ELSA) · Sep 4, 2026
- ALAS2023-2026-1881 Important: kernel6.18 security update (Amazon Linux 2023) Amazon Linux Security Center (ALAS) · Aug 12, 2026
- ALAS2023-2026-1968 Important: kernel6.12 security update (Amazon Linux 2023) Amazon Linux Security Center (ALAS) · Aug 12, 2026