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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38267"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-10T07:41:50.551Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:24:34.104Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-38267"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38267.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38267"
title: "ring-buffer: Do not trigger WARN_ON() due to a commit_overrun"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nring-buffer: Do not trigger WARN_ON() due to a commit_overrun\n\nWhen reading a memory mapped buffer the reader page is just swapped out\nwith the last page written in the write buffer. If the reader page is the\nsame as the commit buffer (the buffer that is currently being written to)\nit was assumed that it should never have missed events. If it does, it\ntriggers a WARN_ON_ONCE().\n\nBut there just happens to be one scenario where this can legitimately\nhappen. That is on a commit_overrun. A commit overrun is when an interrupt\npreempts an event being written to the buffer and then the interrupt adds\nso many new events that it fills and wraps the buffer back to the commit.\nAny new events would then be dropped and be reported as \"missed_events\".\n\nIn this case, the next page to read is the commit buffer and after the\nswap of the reader page, the reader page will be the commit buffer, but\nthis time there will be missed events and this triggers the following\nwarning:\n\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1127 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:7357 ring_buffer_map_get_reader+0x49a/0x780\n Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass\n CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1127 Comm: trace-cmd Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7-test-00004-g478bc2824b45-dirty #564 PREEMPT\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:ring_buffer_map_get_reader+0x49a/0x780\n Code: 00 00 00 48 89 fe 48 c1 ee 03 80 3c 2e 00 0f 85 ec 01 00 00 4d 3b a6 a8 00 00 00 0f 85 8a fd ff ff 48 85 c0 0f 84 55 fe ff ff \u003c0f\u003e 0b e9 4e fe ff ff be 08 00 00 00 4c 89 54 24 58 48 89 54 24 50\n RSP: 0018:ffff888121787dc0 EFLAGS: 00010002\n RAX: 00000000000006a2 RBX: ffff888100062800 RCX: ffffffff8190cb49\n RDX: ffff888126934c00 RSI: 1ffff11020200a15 RDI: ffff8881010050a8\n RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffed1024d26982\n R10: ffff888126934c17 R11: ffff8881010050a8 R12: ffff888126934c00\n R13: ffff8881010050b8 R14: ffff888101005000 R15: ffff888126930008\n FS:  00007f95c8cd7540(0000) GS:ffff8882b576e000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 00007f95c8de4dc0 CR3: 0000000128452002 CR4: 0000000000172ef0\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  ? __pfx_ring_buffer_map_get_reader+0x10/0x10\n  tracing_buffers_ioctl+0x283/0x370\n  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x190\n  do_syscall_64+0x79/0x1c0\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n RIP: 0033:0x7f95c8de48db\n Code: 00 48 89 44 24 18 31 c0 48 8d 44 24 60 c7 04 24 10 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 08 48 8d 44 24 20 48 89 44 24 10 b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 \u003c89\u003e c2 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 1c 48 8b 44 24 18 64 48 2b 04 25 28 00 00\n RSP: 002b:00007ffe037ba110 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010\n RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffe037bb2b0 RCX: 00007f95c8de48db\n RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000005220 RDI: 0000000000000006\n RBP: 00007ffe037ba180 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\n R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000\n R13: 00007ffe037bb6f8 R14: 00007f95c9065000 R15: 00005575c7492c90\n  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n irq event stamp: 5080\n hardirqs last  enabled at (5079): [\u003cffffffff83e0adb0\u003e] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x50/0x70\n hardirqs last disabled at (5080): [\u003cffffffff83e0aa83\u003e] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x63/0x70\n softirqs last  enabled at (4182): [\u003cffffffff81516122\u003e] handle_softirqs+0x552/0x710\n softirqs last disabled at (4159): [\u003cffffffff815163f7\u003e] __irq_exit_rcu+0x107/0x210\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nThe above was triggered by running on a kernel with both lockdep and KASAN\nas well as kmemleak enabled and executing the following command:\n\n # perf record -o perf-test.dat -a -- trace-cmd record --nosplice  -e all -p function hackbench 50\n\nWith perf interjecting a lot of interrupts and trace-cmd enabling all\nevents as well as function tracing, with lockdep, KASAN and kmemleak\nenabled, it could cause an interrupt preempting an event being written to\nadd enough event\n---truncated---"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fe832be05a8eee5f1488cbcc2c562dd82d079fd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8df8cb8f7eef52baa9ac5bf36a405ca67945a91"},{"version":"fe832be05a8eee5f1488cbcc2c562dd82d079fd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e018053632bad8ee0752242c7d2cffb0bbf45404"},{"version":"fe832be05a8eee5f1488cbcc2c562dd82d079fd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4fc78a7c9ca994e1da5d3940704d4e8f0ea8c5e4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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