Bug 2363360 (CVE-2022-49779) - CVE-2022-49779 kernel: kprobes: Skip clearing aggrprobe's post_handler in kprobe-on-ftrace case
Summary: CVE-2022-49779 kernel: kprobes: Skip clearing aggrprobe's post_handler in kpr...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49779
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-05-01 15:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-06 01:36 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:01:22 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kprobes: Skip clearing aggrprobe's post_handler in kprobe-on-ftrace case

In __unregister_kprobe_top(), if the currently unregistered probe has
post_handler but other child probes of the aggrprobe do not have
post_handler, the post_handler of the aggrprobe is cleared. If this is
a ftrace-based probe, there is a problem. In later calls to
disarm_kprobe(), we will use kprobe_ftrace_ops because post_handler is
NULL. But we're armed with kprobe_ipmodify_ops. This triggers a WARN in
__disarm_kprobe_ftrace() and may even cause use-after-free:

  Failed to disarm kprobe-ftrace at kernel_clone+0x0/0x3c0 (error -2)
  WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 137 at kernel/kprobes.c:1135 __disarm_kprobe_ftrace.isra.21+0xcf/0xe0
  Modules linked in: testKprobe_007(-)
  CPU: 5 PID: 137 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-dirty #18
  [...]
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   __disable_kprobe+0xcd/0xe0
   __unregister_kprobe_top+0x12/0x150
   ? mutex_lock+0xe/0x30
   unregister_kprobes.part.23+0x31/0xa0
   unregister_kprobe+0x32/0x40
   __x64_sys_delete_module+0x15e/0x260
   ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2cd/0x6b0
   do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
   [...]

For the kprobe-on-ftrace case, we keep the post_handler setting to
identify this aggrprobe armed with kprobe_ipmodify_ops. This way we
can disarm it correctly.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 04:31:33 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050118-CVE-2022-49779-0263@gregkh/T


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