Bug 2355475 (CVE-2023-52978) - CVE-2023-52978 kernel: riscv: kprobe: Fixup kernel panic when probing an illegal position
Summary: CVE-2023-52978 kernel: riscv: kprobe: Fixup kernel panic when probing an ille...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-52978
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-03-27 17:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-04-20 18:25 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-03-27 17:03:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

riscv: kprobe: Fixup kernel panic when probing an illegal position

The kernel would panic when probed for an illegal position. eg:

(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C=n)

echo 'p:hello kernel_clone+0x16 a0=%a0' >> kprobe_events
echo 1 > events/kprobes/hello/enable
cat trace

Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack
is corrupted in: __do_sys_newfstatat+0xb8/0xb8
CPU: 0 PID: 111 Comm: sh Not tainted
6.2.0-rc1-00027-g2d398fe49a4d #490
Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80007268>] dump_backtrace+0x38/0x48
[<ffffffff80c5e83c>] show_stack+0x50/0x68
[<ffffffff80c6da28>] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x84
[<ffffffff80c6da6c>] dump_stack+0x20/0x30
[<ffffffff80c5ecf4>] panic+0x160/0x374
[<ffffffff80c6db94>] generic_handle_arch_irq+0x0/0xa8
[<ffffffff802deeb0>] sys_newstat+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff800158c0>] sys_clone+0x20/0x30
[<ffffffff800039e8>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x4
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector:
Kernel stack is corrupted in: __do_sys_newfstatat+0xb8/0xb8 ]---

That is because the kprobe's ebreak instruction broke the kernel's
original code. The user should guarantee the correction of the probe
position, but it couldn't make the kernel panic.

This patch adds arch_check_kprobe in arch_prepare_kprobe to prevent an
illegal position (Such as the middle of an instruction).


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