Bug 2373466 (CVE-2022-50078) - CVE-2022-50078 kernel: tracing/eprobes: Do not allow eprobes to use $stack, or % for regs
Summary: CVE-2022-50078 kernel: tracing/eprobes: Do not allow eprobes to use $stack, o...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50078
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-06-18 12:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-07-08 04:29 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:04:14 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing/eprobes: Do not allow eprobes to use $stack, or % for regs

While playing with event probes (eprobes), I tried to see what would
happen if I attempted to retrieve the instruction pointer (%rip) knowing
that event probes do not use pt_regs. The result was:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000024
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 1 PID: 1847 Comm: trace-cmd Not tainted 5.19.0-rc5-test+ #309
 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01
v03.03 07/14/2016
 RIP: 0010:get_event_field.isra.0+0x0/0x50
 Code: ff 48 c7 c7 c0 8f 74 a1 e8 3d 8b f5 ff e8 88 09 f6 ff 4c 89 e7 e8
50 6a 13 00 48 89 ef 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d e9 42 6a 13 00 66 90 <48> 63 47 24
8b 57 2c 48 01 c6 8b 47 28 83 f8 02 74 0e 83 f8 04 74
 RSP: 0018:ffff916c394bbaf0 EFLAGS: 00010086
 RAX: ffff916c854041d8 RBX: ffff916c8d9fbf50 RCX: ffff916c255d2000
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff916c255d2008 RDI: 0000000000000000
 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff916c3a2a0c08 R09: ffff916c394bbda8
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff916c854041d8
 R13: ffff916c854041b0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff916c9ea40000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000024 CR3: 000000011b60a002 CR4: 00000000001706e0
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  get_eprobe_size+0xb4/0x640
  ? __mod_node_page_state+0x72/0xc0
  __eprobe_trace_func+0x59/0x1a0
  ? __mod_lruvec_page_state+0xaa/0x1b0
  ? page_remove_file_rmap+0x14/0x230
  ? page_remove_rmap+0xda/0x170
  event_triggers_call+0x52/0xe0
  trace_event_buffer_commit+0x18f/0x240
  trace_event_raw_event_sched_wakeup_template+0x7a/0xb0
  try_to_wake_up+0x260/0x4c0
  __wake_up_common+0x80/0x180
  __wake_up_common_lock+0x7c/0xc0
  do_notify_parent+0x1c9/0x2a0
  exit_notify+0x1a9/0x220
  do_exit+0x2ba/0x450
  do_group_exit+0x2d/0x90
  __x64_sys_exit_group+0x14/0x20
  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Obviously this is not the desired result.

Move the testing for TPARG_FL_TPOINT which is only used for event probes
to the top of the "$" variable check, as all the other variables are not
used for event probes. Also add a check in the register parsing "%" to
fail if an event probe is used.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-20 02:57:45 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061855-CVE-2022-50078-54e5@gregkh/T


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