CVE-2026-64163 is a vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Published on July 19, 2026
test_kprobes: clear kprobes between test runs
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
test_kprobes: clear kprobes between test runs
Running the kprobes sanity tests twice makes all tests fail and
eventually crashes the kernel.
[root@martin-riscv-1 ~]# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/kunit/kprobes_test/run
...
# Totals: pass:5 fail:0 skip:0 total:5
ok 1 kprobes_test
[root@martin-riscv-1 ~]# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/kunit/kprobes_test/run
...
# test_kprobe: EXPECTATION FAILED at lib/tests/test_kprobes.c:64
Expected 0 == register_kprobe(&kp), but
register_kprobe(&kp) == -22 (0xffffffffffffffea)
...
Unable to handle kernel paging request ...
The testsuite defines several kprobes and kretprobes as static variables
that are preserved across test runs.
After register_kprobe and unregister_kprobe, a kprobe contains some
leftover data that must be cleared before the kprobe can be registered
again. The tests are setting symbol_name to define the probe location.
Address and flags must be cleared.
The existing code clears some of the probes between subsequent tests, but
not between two test runs. The leftover data from a previous test run
makes the registrations fail in the next run.
Move the cleanups for all kprobes into kprobes_test_init, this function
is called before each single test (including the first test of a test
run).
Products Associated with CVE-2026-64163
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Affected Versions
Linux:- Version e44e81c5b90f698025eadceb7eef8661eda117d5 and below 08d355936fcf70c81c94f9fe7310450b65c53399 is affected.
- Version e44e81c5b90f698025eadceb7eef8661eda117d5 and below accc0004c501a9918313142282b094d408af06fb is affected.
- Version e44e81c5b90f698025eadceb7eef8661eda117d5 and below 1c24cf1fd67f6702c719ab73499392cb7af956ae is affected.
- Version e44e81c5b90f698025eadceb7eef8661eda117d5 and below 96515819d79f356f40da5540968d838ea570fab9 is affected.
- Version e44e81c5b90f698025eadceb7eef8661eda117d5 and below ef5581bb30efb939cc2bf093475c6cc85258e5cd is affected.
- Version 5.16 is affected.
- Before 5.16 is unaffected.
- Version 6.6.142, <= 6.6.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.12.92, <= 6.12.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.18.34, <= 6.18.* is unaffected.
- Version 7.0.11, <= 7.0.* is unaffected.
- Version 7.1, <= * is unaffected.