Bug 2298189 (CVE-2022-48848)

Summary: CVE-2022-48848 kernel: tracing/osnoise: Do not unregister events twice
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, rhel-process-autobot, vkumar, watson-tool-maintainers
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Fixed In Version: kernel 5.16.15, kernel 5.17 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel in the trace_osnoise function in kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c where an issue occurs when events are unregistered twice, triggered by certain commands that switch trace modes, leading to kernel warnings and potential instability. The improper handling of tracepoint unregistration can disrupt the tracing process in kernel operations.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-07-16 13:24:00 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing/osnoise: Do not unregister events twice

Nicolas reported that using:

 # trace-cmd record -e all -M 10 -p osnoise --poll

Resulted in the following kernel warning:

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1217 at kernel/tracepoint.c:404 tracepoint_probe_unregister+0x280/0x370
 [...]
 CPU: 0 PID: 1217 Comm: trace-cmd Not tainted 5.17.0-rc6-next-20220307-nico+ #19
 RIP: 0010:tracepoint_probe_unregister+0x280/0x370
 [...]
 CR2: 00007ff919b29497 CR3: 0000000109da4005 CR4: 0000000000170ef0
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  osnoise_workload_stop+0x36/0x90
  tracing_set_tracer+0x108/0x260
  tracing_set_trace_write+0x94/0xd0
  ? __check_object_size.part.0+0x10a/0x150
  ? selinux_file_permission+0x104/0x150
  vfs_write+0xb5/0x290
  ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
 RIP: 0033:0x7ff919a18127
 [...]
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The warning complains about an attempt to unregister an
unregistered tracepoint.

This happens on trace-cmd because it first stops tracing, and
then switches the tracer to nop. Which is equivalent to:

  # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
  # echo osnoise > current_tracer
  # echo 0 > tracing_on
  # echo nop > current_tracer

The osnoise tracer stops the workload when no trace instance
is actually collecting data. This can be caused both by
disabling tracing or disabling the tracer itself.

To avoid unregistering events twice, use the existing
trace_osnoise_callback_enabled variable to check if the events
(and the workload) are actually active before trying to
deactivate them.