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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23380"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-25T10:27:59.682Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:05:45.422Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
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-2026-23380"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23380.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23380"
title: "tracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_close"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_close\n\nWhen a process forks, the child process copies the parent's VMAs but the\nuser_mapped reference count is not incremented. As a result, when both the\nparent and child processes exit, tracing_buffers_mmap_close() is called\ntwice. On the second call, user_mapped is already 0, causing the function to\nreturn -ENODEV and triggering a WARN_ON.\n\nNormally, this isn't an issue as the memory is mapped with VM_DONTCOPY set.\nBut this is only a hint, and the application can call\nmadvise(MADVISE_DOFORK) which resets the VM_DONTCOPY flag. When the\napplication does that, it can trigger this issue on fork.\n\nFix it by incrementing the user_mapped reference count without re-mapping\nthe pages in the VMA's open callback."
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