CVE-2024-47794

bpf: Prevent tailcall infinite loop caused by freplace

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jan 11, 2025
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Jan 9, 2025

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Description

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

bpf: Prevent tailcall infinite loop caused by freplace

There is a potential infinite loop issue that can occur when using a combination of tail calls and freplace.

In an upcoming selftest, the attach target for entry_freplace of tailcall_freplace.c is subprog_tc of tc_bpf2bpf.c, while the tail call in entry_freplace leads to entry_tc. This results in an infinite loop:

entry_tc -> subprog_tc -> entry_freplace --tailcall-> entry_tc.

The problem arises because the tail_call_cnt in entry_freplace resets to zero each time entry_freplace is executed, causing the tail call mechanism to never terminate, eventually leading to a kernel panic.

To fix this issue, the solution is twofold:

1. Prevent updating a program extended by an freplace program to a prog_array map. 2. Prevent extending a program that is already part of a prog_array map with an freplace program.

This ensures that:

* If a program or its subprogram has been extended by an freplace program, it can no longer be updated to a prog_array map. * If a program has been added to a prog_array map, neither it nor its subprograms can be extended by an freplace program.

Moreover, an extension program should not be tailcalled. As such, return -EINVAL if the program has a type of BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT when adding it to a prog_array map.

Additionally, fix a minor code style issue by replacing eight spaces with a tab for proper formatting.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • be8704ff07d2374bcc5c675526f95e70c6459683 to before 272f92998cbec9e12fea8ef28f48d6b1bc625a34Affected
  • be8704ff07d2374bcc5c675526f95e70c6459683 to before f8ba0d22afa613b280fc40fcf6ae99f73c7b36e6Affected
  • be8704ff07d2374bcc5c675526f95e70c6459683 to before 987aa730bad3e1ef66d9f30182294daa78f6387dAffected
  • be8704ff07d2374bcc5c675526f95e70c6459683 to before d6083f040d5d8f8d748462c77e90547097df936eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.6Affected
  • before 5.6Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.5 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

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