Bug 2379209 (CVE-2025-38285) - CVE-2025-38285 kernel: bpf: Fix WARN() in get_bpf_raw_tp_regs
Summary: CVE-2025-38285 kernel: bpf: Fix WARN() in get_bpf_raw_tp_regs
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38285
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-07-10 08:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-07-11 08:24 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-10 08:03:43 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix WARN() in get_bpf_raw_tp_regs

syzkaller reported an issue:

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 5971 at kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1861 get_bpf_raw_tp_regs+0xa4/0x100 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1861
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 5971 Comm: syz-executor205 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc5-syzkaller-00038-g707df3375124 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:get_bpf_raw_tp_regs+0xa4/0x100 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1861
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003636fa8 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: ffffffff81c6bc4c
RDX: ffff888032efc880 RSI: ffffffff81c6bc83 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: ffff88806a730860 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000003
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000004
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffc90003637008 R15: 0000000000000900
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880d6cdf000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f7baee09130 CR3: 0000000029f5a000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ____bpf_get_stack_raw_tp kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1934 [inline]
 bpf_get_stack_raw_tp+0x24/0x160 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1931
 bpf_prog_ec3b2eefa702d8d3+0x43/0x47
 bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:1316 [inline]
 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:718 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:725 [inline]
 __bpf_trace_run kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:2363 [inline]
 bpf_trace_run3+0x23f/0x5a0 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:2405
 __bpf_trace_mmap_lock_acquire_returned+0xfc/0x140 include/trace/events/mmap_lock.h:47
 __traceiter_mmap_lock_acquire_returned+0x79/0xc0 include/trace/events/mmap_lock.h:47
 __do_trace_mmap_lock_acquire_returned include/trace/events/mmap_lock.h:47 [inline]
 trace_mmap_lock_acquire_returned include/trace/events/mmap_lock.h:47 [inline]
 __mmap_lock_do_trace_acquire_returned+0x138/0x1f0 mm/mmap_lock.c:35
 __mmap_lock_trace_acquire_returned include/linux/mmap_lock.h:36 [inline]
 mmap_read_trylock include/linux/mmap_lock.h:204 [inline]
 stack_map_get_build_id_offset+0x535/0x6f0 kernel/bpf/stackmap.c:157
 __bpf_get_stack+0x307/0xa10 kernel/bpf/stackmap.c:483
 ____bpf_get_stack kernel/bpf/stackmap.c:499 [inline]
 bpf_get_stack+0x32/0x40 kernel/bpf/stackmap.c:496
 ____bpf_get_stack_raw_tp kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1941 [inline]
 bpf_get_stack_raw_tp+0x124/0x160 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1931
 bpf_prog_ec3b2eefa702d8d3+0x43/0x47

Tracepoint like trace_mmap_lock_acquire_returned may cause nested call
as the corner case show above, which will be resolved with more general
method in the future. As a result, WARN_ON_ONCE will be triggered. As
Alexei suggested, remove the WARN_ON_ONCE first.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-07-11 08:14:48 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025071010-CVE-2025-38285-f415@gregkh/T


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