published May 1, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Fix wild-memory-access in register_synth_event()
In register_synth_event(), if set_synth_event_print_fmt() failed, then
both trace_remove_event_call() and unregister_trace_event() will be
called, which means the trace_event_call will call
__unregister_trace_event() twice. As the result, the second unregister
will causes the wild-memory-access.
register_synth_event
set_synth_event_print_fmt failed
trace_remove_event_call
event_remove
if call->event.funcs then
__unregister_trace_event (first call)
unregister_trace_event
__unregister_trace_event (second call)
Fix the bug by avoiding to call the second __unregister_trace_event() by
checking if the first one is called.
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xfbd59c0000000024: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range
[0xdead000000000120-0xdead000000000127]
CPU: 0 PID: 3807 Comm: modprobe Not tainted
6.1.0-rc1-00186-g76f33a7eedb4 #299
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:unregister_trace_event+0x6e/0x280
Code: 00 fc ff df 4c 89 ea 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 0e 02 00 00 48
b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 8b 63 08 4c 89 e2 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02
00 0f 85 e2 01 00 00 49 89 2c 24 48 85 ed 74 28 e8 7a 9b
RSP: 0018:ffff88810413f370 EFLAGS: 00010a06
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff888105d050b0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 1bd5a00000000024 RSI: ffff888119e276e0 RDI: ffffffff835a8b20
RBP: dead000000000100 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: fffffbfff0913481
R10: ffffffff8489a407 R11: fffffbfff0913480 R12: dead000000000122
R13: ffff888105d050b8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888105d05028
FS: 00007f7823e8d540(0000) GS:ffff888119e00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f7823e7ebec CR3: 000000010a058002 CR4: 0000000000330ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__create_synth_event+0x1e37/0x1eb0
create_or_delete_synth_event+0x110/0x250
synth_event_run_command+0x2f/0x110
test_gen_synth_cmd+0x170/0x2eb [synth_event_gen_test]
synth_event_gen_test_init+0x76/0x9bc [synth_event_gen_test]
do_one_initcall+0xdb/0x480
do_init_module+0x1cf/0x680
load_module+0x6a50/0x70a0
__do_sys_finit_module+0x12f/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd