CVE-2022-49726

clocksource: hyper-v: unexport __init-annotated hv_init_clocksource()

published February 26, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

clocksource: hyper-v: unexport __init-annotated hv_init_clocksource()

EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text

section is freed up after the initialization. Hence, modules cannot

use symbols annotated __init. The access to a freed symbol may end up

with kernel panic.

modpost used to detect it, but it has been broken for a decade.

Recently, I fixed modpost so it started to warn it again, then this

showed up in linux-next builds.

There are two ways to fix it:

- Remove __init

- Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL

I chose the latter for this case because the only in-tree call-site,

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c is never compiled as modular.

(CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST is boolean)

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00273 · 18.7th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T02:24Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 02:24Z
    clocksource: hyper-v: unexport __init-annotated hv_init_clocksource()
    cvelistv5