CVE-2022-49802

ftrace: Fix null pointer dereference in ftrace_add_mod()

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

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Description

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

ftrace: Fix null pointer dereference in ftrace_add_mod()

The @ftrace_mod is allocated by kzalloc(), so both the members {prev,next} of @ftrace_mode->list are NULL, it's not a valid state to call list_del(). If kstrdup() for @ftrace_mod->{func|module} fails, it goes to @out_free tag and calls free_ftrace_mod() to destroy @ftrace_mod, then list_del() will write prev->next and next->prev, where null pointer dereference happens.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI Call Trace: <TASK> ftrace_mod_callback+0x20d/0x220 ? do_filp_open+0xd9/0x140 ftrace_process_regex.isra.51+0xbf/0x130 ftrace_regex_write.isra.52.part.53+0x6e/0x90 vfs_write+0xee/0x3a0 ? __audit_filter_op+0xb1/0x100 ? auditd_test_task+0x38/0x50 ksys_write+0xa5/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

So call INIT_LIST_HEAD() to initialize the list member to fix this issue.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 673feb9d76ab3eddde7acfd94b206e321cfc90b9 to before 665b4c6648bf2b91f69b33817f4321cf4c3cafe9Affected
  • 673feb9d76ab3eddde7acfd94b206e321cfc90b9 to before b5bfc61f541d3f092b13dedcfe000d86eb8e133cAffected
  • 673feb9d76ab3eddde7acfd94b206e321cfc90b9 to before f715f31559b82e3f75ce047fa476de63d8107584Affected
  • 673feb9d76ab3eddde7acfd94b206e321cfc90b9 to before 6a14828caddad0d989495a72af678adf60992704Affected
  • 673feb9d76ab3eddde7acfd94b206e321cfc90b9 to before 1bea037a1abb23a6729bef36a2265a4565f5ea77Affected
  • 673feb9d76ab3eddde7acfd94b206e321cfc90b9 to before 6e50eb4b1807017f6c2d5089064256ce2de8aef1Affected
  • 673feb9d76ab3eddde7acfd94b206e321cfc90b9 to before 19ba6c8af9382c4c05dc6a0a79af3013b9a35cd0Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.13Affected
  • before 4.13Not affected
  • 4.14.300 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.267 through 4.19.*Not 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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