CVE-2022-49779

kprobes: Skip clearing aggrprobe's post_handler in kprobe-on-ftrace case

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 1, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

kprobes: Skip clearing aggrprobe's post_handler in kprobe-on-ftrace case

In __unregister_kprobe_top(), if the currently unregistered probe has post_handler but other child probes of the aggrprobe do not have post_handler, the post_handler of the aggrprobe is cleared. If this is a ftrace-based probe, there is a problem. In later calls to disarm_kprobe(), we will use kprobe_ftrace_ops because post_handler is NULL. But we're armed with kprobe_ipmodify_ops. This triggers a WARN in __disarm_kprobe_ftrace() and may even cause use-after-free:

Failed to disarm kprobe-ftrace at kernel_clone+0x0/0x3c0 (error -2) WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 137 at kernel/kprobes.c:1135 __disarm_kprobe_ftrace.isra.21+0xcf/0xe0 Modules linked in: testKprobe_007(-) CPU: 5 PID: 137 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-dirty #18 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> __disable_kprobe+0xcd/0xe0 __unregister_kprobe_top+0x12/0x150 ? mutex_lock+0xe/0x30 unregister_kprobes.part.23+0x31/0xa0 unregister_kprobe+0x32/0x40 __x64_sys_delete_module+0x15e/0x260 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2cd/0x6b0 do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd [...]

For the kprobe-on-ftrace case, we keep the post_handler setting to identify this aggrprobe armed with kprobe_ipmodify_ops. This way we can disarm it correctly.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 0bc11ed5ab60c135aa764a62c02cd5ea68289de4 to before 7b0007b28dd970176f2e297c06ae63eea2447127Affected
  • 0bc11ed5ab60c135aa764a62c02cd5ea68289de4 to before 7d606ae1abcc3eab5408e42444d789dc7def51b8Affected
  • 0bc11ed5ab60c135aa764a62c02cd5ea68289de4 to before c49cc2c059b503e962c2f13a806c105f9b757df4Affected
  • 0bc11ed5ab60c135aa764a62c02cd5ea68289de4 to before 55788ebbe8b365b4375bd56b4ba7db79d393a370Affected
  • 0bc11ed5ab60c135aa764a62c02cd5ea68289de4 to before 5dd7caf0bdc5d0bae7cf9776b4d739fb09bd5ebbAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.4Affected
  • before 5.4Not affected
  • 5.4.225 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.156 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.80 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.0.10 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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