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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90002"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:33:12.734Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:49:23.283Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-90002"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90002.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90002"
title: "ftrace: Take trace_array reference before accessing its ftrace_ops"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nftrace: Take trace_array reference before accessing its ftrace_ops\n\nThe trace instance files set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace was\nupdated to work with specific trace instances (trace_arrays). The issue is\nthat when these files are opened, there is a small race window where it\nwill use the ftrace_ops from the inode-\u003eprivate pointer to get a reference\nto the trace_array and then take its reference. The problem is that the\nftrace_ops itself could be freed. If the rmdir on the instance happens at\nthe same time the set_ftrace_filter file is opened, the rmdir could have\nalso freed the ftrace_ops and referencing it will cause a use-after-free\nbug and crash the kernel.\n\nInstead, pass in the trace_array as the file private data (NULL for the\ntop level instance), and then pass both the trace_array and the ftrace_ops\nto the ftrace_regex_open() function. If the trace_array is NULL, then it\njust uses the ftrace_ops without the need to take its reference (like\nnormal). If the ftrace_ops is NULL, that is only the case for the top\nlevel instance and the global_ops can be used.\n\nThis allows the trace_array to have its reference incremented before\ntouching the ftrace_ops that could also be freed when the instance is."
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