Bug 2401471 (CVE-2023-53557)

Summary: CVE-2023-53557 kernel: fprobe: Release rethook after the ftrace_ops is unregistered
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-04 16:02:18 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fprobe: Release rethook after the ftrace_ops is unregistered

While running bpf selftests it's possible to get following fault:

  general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address \
  0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NOPTI
  ...
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   fprobe_handler+0xc1/0x270
   ? __pfx_bpf_testmod_init+0x10/0x10
   ? __pfx_bpf_testmod_init+0x10/0x10
   ? bpf_fentry_test1+0x5/0x10
   ? bpf_fentry_test1+0x5/0x10
   ? bpf_testmod_init+0x22/0x80
   ? do_one_initcall+0x63/0x2e0
   ? rcu_is_watching+0xd/0x40
   ? kmalloc_trace+0xaf/0xc0
   ? do_init_module+0x60/0x250
   ? __do_sys_finit_module+0xac/0x120
   ? do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90
   ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
   </TASK>

In unregister_fprobe function we can't release fp->rethook while it's
possible there are some of its users still running on another cpu.

Moving rethook_free call after fp->ops is unregistered with
unregister_ftrace_function call.
Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-10-06 16:51:04 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025100449-CVE-2023-53557-e7ba@gregkh/T