# 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-2026-46196"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:36:49.293Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:21:17.317Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-46196"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46196.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46196"
title: "tracepoint: balance regfunc() on func_add() failure in tracepoint_add_func()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracepoint: balance regfunc() on func_add() failure in tracepoint_add_func()\n\nWhen a tracepoint goes through the 0 -\u003e 1 transition, tracepoint_add_func()\ninvokes the subsystem's ext-\u003eregfunc() before attempting to install the\nnew probe via func_add(). If func_add() then fails (for example, when\nallocate_probes() cannot allocate a new probe array under memory pressure\nand returns -ENOMEM), the function returns the error without calling the\nmatching ext-\u003eunregfunc(), leaving the side effects of regfunc() behind\nwith no installed probe to justify them.\n\nFor syscall tracepoints this is particularly unpleasant: syscall_regfunc()\nbumps sys_tracepoint_refcount and sets SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT on every task.\nAfter a leaked failure, the refcount is stuck at a non-zero value with no\nconsumer, and every task continues paying the syscall trace entry/exit\noverhead until reboot. Other subsystems providing regfunc()/unregfunc()\npairs exhibit similarly scoped persistent state.\n\nMirror the existing 1 -\u003e 0 cleanup and call ext-\u003eunregfunc() in the\nfunc_add() error path, gated on the same condition used there so the\nunwind is symmetric with the registration."
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