CVE-2025-39829
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
16/09/2025
Last modified:
14/01/2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
trace/fgraph: Fix the warning caused by missing unregister notifier<br />
<br />
This warning was triggered during testing on v6.16:<br />
<br />
notifier callback ftrace_suspend_notifier_call already registered<br />
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 86 at kernel/notifier.c:23 notifier_chain_register+0x44/0xb0<br />
...<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
blocking_notifier_chain_register+0x34/0x60<br />
register_ftrace_graph+0x330/0x410<br />
ftrace_profile_write+0x1e9/0x340<br />
vfs_write+0xf8/0x420<br />
? filp_flush+0x8a/0xa0<br />
? filp_close+0x1f/0x30<br />
? do_dup2+0xaf/0x160<br />
ksys_write+0x65/0xe0<br />
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f<br />
<br />
When writing to the function_profile_enabled interface, the notifier was<br />
not unregistered after start_graph_tracing failed, causing a warning the<br />
next time function_profile_enabled was written.<br />
<br />
Fixed by adding unregister_pm_notifier in the exception path.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 2.6.30 (including) | 6.12.45 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.13 (including) | 6.16.5 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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