CVE-2026-23374 blktrace: fix __this_cpu_read/write in preemptible context
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

blktrace: fix __this_cpu_read/write in preemptible context

tracing_record_cmdline() internally uses __this_cpu_read() and
__this_cpu_write() on the per-CPU variable trace_cmdline_save, and
trace_save_cmdline() explicitly asserts preemption is disabled via
lockdep_assert_preemption_disabled(). These operations are only safe
when preemption is off, as they were designed to be called from the
scheduler context (probe_wakeup_sched_switch() / probe_wakeup()).

__blk_add_trace() was calling tracing_record_cmdline(current) early in
the blk_tracer path, before ring buffer reservation, from process
context where preemption is fully enabled. This triggers the following
using blktests/blktrace/002:

blktrace/002 (blktrace ftrace corruption with sysfs trace)   [failed]
    runtime  0.367s  ...  0.437s
    something found in dmesg:
    [   81.211018] run blktests blktrace/002 at 2026-02-25 22:24:33
    [   81.239580] null_blk: disk nullb1 created
    [   81.357294] BUG: using __this_cpu_read() in preemptible [00000000] code: dd/2516
    [   81.362842] caller is tracing_record_cmdline+0x10/0x40
    [   81.362872] CPU: 16 UID: 0 PID: 2516 Comm: dd Tainted: G                 N  7.0.0-rc1lblk+ #84 PREEMPT(full)
    [   81.362877] Tainted: [N]=TEST
    [   81.362878] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
    [   81.362881] Call Trace:
    [   81.362884]  <TASK>
    [   81.362886]  dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xb0
    ...
    (See '/mnt/sda/blktests/results/nodev/blktrace/002.dmesg' for the entire message)

[   81.211018] run blktests blktrace/002 at 2026-02-25 22:24:33
[   81.239580] null_blk: disk nullb1 created
[   81.357294] BUG: using __this_cpu_read() in preemptible [00000000] code: dd/2516
[   81.362842] caller is tracing_record_cmdline+0x10/0x40
[   81.362872] CPU: 16 UID: 0 PID: 2516 Comm: dd Tainted: G                 N  7.0.0-rc1lblk+ #84 PREEMPT(full)
[   81.362877] Tainted: [N]=TEST
[   81.362878] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[   81.362881] Call Trace:
[   81.362884]  <TASK>
[   81.362886]  dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xb0
[   81.362895]  check_preemption_disabled+0xce/0xe0
[   81.362902]  tracing_record_cmdline+0x10/0x40
[   81.362923]  __blk_add_trace+0x307/0x5d0
[   81.362934]  ? lock_acquire+0xe0/0x300
[   81.362940]  ? iov_iter_extract_pages+0x101/0xa30
[   81.362959]  blk_add_trace_bio+0x106/0x1e0
[   81.362968]  submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x24b/0x3a0
[   81.362979]  ? lockdep_init_map_type+0x58/0x260
[   81.362988]  submit_bio_wait+0x56/0x90
[   81.363009]  __blkdev_direct_IO_simple+0x16c/0x250
[   81.363026]  ? __pfx_submit_bio_wait_endio+0x10/0x10
[   81.363038]  ? rcu_read_lock_any_held+0x73/0xa0
[   81.363051]  blkdev_read_iter+0xc1/0x140
[   81.363059]  vfs_read+0x20b/0x330
[   81.363083]  ksys_read+0x67/0xe0
[   81.363090]  do_syscall_64+0xbf/0xf00
[   81.363102]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[   81.363106] RIP: 0033:0x7f281906029d
[   81.363111] Code: 31 c0 e9 c6 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d 66 63 0a 00 e8 59 ff 01 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 80 3d 41 33 0e 00 00 74 17 31 c0 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 5b c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec
[   81.363113] RSP: 002b:00007ffca127dd48 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
[   81.363120] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f281906029d
[   81.363122] RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 0000559f8bfae000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[   81.363123] RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: 0000002863a10a81 R09: 00007f281915f000
[   81.363124] R10: 00007f2818f77b60 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000559f8bfae000
[   81.363126] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000000000000000a
[   81.363142]  </TASK>

The same BUG fires from blk_add_trace_plug(), blk_add_trace_unplug(),
and blk_add_trace_rq() paths as well.

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Affected products: vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: unaffected
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: affected
Published: 2026-03-25T10:27:55.117Z