Bug 2365263 (CVE-2025-37884) - CVE-2025-37884 kernel: bpf: Fix deadlock between rcu_tasks_trace and event_mutex.
Summary: CVE-2025-37884 kernel: bpf: Fix deadlock between rcu_tasks_trace and event_mu...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-37884
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-05-09 07:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-09 08:20 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-09 07:02:21 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix deadlock between rcu_tasks_trace and event_mutex.

Fix the following deadlock:
CPU A
_free_event()
  perf_kprobe_destroy()
    mutex_lock(&event_mutex)
      perf_trace_event_unreg()
        synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace()

There are several paths where _free_event() grabs event_mutex
and calls sync_rcu_tasks_trace. Above is one such case.

CPU B
bpf_prog_test_run_syscall()
  rcu_read_lock_trace()
    bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu()
      bpf_prog_load()
        bpf_tracing_func_proto()
          trace_set_clr_event()
            mutex_lock(&event_mutex)

Delegate trace_set_clr_event() to workqueue to avoid
such lock dependency.


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