CVE-2026-89748

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing: Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap

simple ring buffer swap reader page() starts with retry set to 8 and post-decrements it only after a failed link replacement. On the final attempt, a successful replacement leaves retry at zero, while a failed replacement leaves it at -1.

The current !retry test reverses both outcomes. It returns an error after a successful final replacement, leaving the link update complete but the reader bookkeeping unfinished. After a failed final replacement, it falls through and updates the head and reader pointers as though the replacement succeeded, which can corrupt the ring.

Treat only a negative counter as exhaustion and return the documented -EBUSY error.