# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-26796"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-04-04T08:20:25.823Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:04:20.292Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26796"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26796.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26796"
title: "drivers: perf: ctr_get_width function for legacy is not defined"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrivers: perf: ctr_get_width function for legacy is not defined\n\nWith parameters CONFIG_RISCV_PMU_LEGACY=y and CONFIG_RISCV_PMU_SBI=n\nlinux kernel crashes when you try perf record:\n\n$ perf record ls\n[ 46.749286] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000\n[ 46.750199] Oops [#1]\n[ 46.750342] Modules linked in:\n[ 46.750608] CPU: 0 PID: 107 Comm: perf-exec Not tainted 6.6.0 #2\n[ 46.750906] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)\n[ 46.751184] epc : 0x0\n[ 46.751430] ra : arch_perf_update_userpage+0x54/0x13e\n[ 46.751680] epc : 0000000000000000 ra : ffffffff8072ee52 sp : ff2000000022b8f0\n[ 46.751958] gp : ffffffff81505988 tp : ff6000000290d400 t0 : ff2000000022b9c0\n[ 46.752229] t1 : 0000000000000001 t2 : 0000000000000003 s0 : ff2000000022b930\n[ 46.752451] s1 : ff600000028fb000 a0 : 0000000000000000 a1 : ff600000028fb000\n[ 46.752673] a2 : 0000000ae2751268 a3 : 00000000004fb708 a4 : 0000000000000004\n[ 46.752895] a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 000000000017ffe3 a7 : 00000000000000d2\n[ 46.753117] s2 : ff600000028fb000 s3 : 0000000ae2751268 s4 : 0000000000000000\n[ 46.753338] s5 : ffffffff8153e290 s6 : ff600000863b9000 s7 : ff60000002961078\n[ 46.753562] s8 : ff60000002961048 s9 : ff60000002961058 s10: 0000000000000001\n[ 46.753783] s11: 0000000000000018 t3 : ffffffffffffffff t4 : ffffffffffffffff\n[ 46.754005] t5 : ff6000000292270c t6 : ff2000000022bb30\n[ 46.754179] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 000000000000000c\n[ 46.754653] Code: Unable to access instruction at 0xffffffffffffffec.\n[ 46.754939] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n[ 46.755131] note: perf-exec[107] exited with irqs disabled\n[ 46.755546] note: perf-exec[107] exited with preempt_count 4\n\nThis happens because in the legacy case the ctr_get_width function was not\ndefined, but it is used in arch_perf_update_userpage.\n\nAlso remove extra check in riscv_pmu_ctr_get_width_mask"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"cc4c07c89aada16229084eeb93895c95b7eabaa3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0d17ee872cf8d0f51cc561329b8e1a0aa792bbb"},{"version":"cc4c07c89aada16229084eeb93895c95b7eabaa3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e4f50e85de5a6b21dfdc0d7ca435eba4f62935c3"},{"version":"cc4c07c89aada16229084eeb93895c95b7eabaa3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"682dc133f83e0194796e6ea72eb642df1c03dfbe"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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