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CVSS v3.1 |
| Versions of the package semver before 7.5.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the function new Range, when untrusted user data is provided as a range.
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| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: rfi: fix potential response leaks
If the rx payload length check fails, or if kmemdup() fails,
we still need to free the command response. Fix that. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ice: fix memory corruption bug with suspend and rebuild
The ice driver would previously panic after suspend. This is caused
from the driver *only* calling the ice_vsi_free_q_vectors() function by
itself, when it is suspending. Since commit b3e7b3a6ee92 ("ice: prevent
NULL pointer deref during reload") the driver has zeroed out
num_q_vectors, and only restored it in ice_vsi_cfg_def().
This further causes the ice_rebuild() function to allocate a zero length
buffer, after which num_q_vectors is updated, and then the new value of
num_q_vectors is used to index into the zero length buffer, which
corrupts memory.
The fix entails making sure all the code referencing num_q_vectors only
does so after it has been reset via ice_vsi_cfg_def().
I didn't perform a full bisect, but I was able to test against 6.1.77
kernel and that ice driver works fine for suspend/resume with no panic,
so sometime since then, this problem was introduced.
Also clean up an un-needed init of a local variable in the function
being modified.
PANIC from 6.8.0-rc1:
[1026674.915596] PM: suspend exit
[1026675.664697] ice 0000:17:00.1: PTP reset successful
[1026675.664707] ice 0000:17:00.1: 2755 msecs passed between update to cached PHC time
[1026675.667660] ice 0000:b1:00.0: PTP reset successful
[1026675.675944] ice 0000:b1:00.0: 2832 msecs passed between update to cached PHC time
[1026677.137733] ixgbe 0000:31:00.0 ens787: NIC Link is Up 1 Gbps, Flow Control: None
[1026677.190201] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
[1026677.192753] ice 0000:17:00.0: PTP reset successful
[1026677.192764] ice 0000:17:00.0: 4548 msecs passed between update to cached PHC time
[1026677.197928] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[1026677.197933] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[1026677.197937] PGD 1557a7067 P4D 0
[1026677.212133] ice 0000:b1:00.1: PTP reset successful
[1026677.212143] ice 0000:b1:00.1: 4344 msecs passed between update to cached PHC time
[1026677.212575]
[1026677.243142] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[1026677.247918] CPU: 23 PID: 42790 Comm: kworker/23:0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.8.0-rc1+ #1
[1026677.257989] Hardware name: Intel Corporation M50CYP2SBSTD/M50CYP2SBSTD, BIOS SE5C620.86B.01.01.0005.2202160810 02/16/2022
[1026677.269367] Workqueue: ice ice_service_task [ice]
[1026677.274592] RIP: 0010:ice_vsi_rebuild_set_coalesce+0x130/0x1e0 [ice]
[1026677.281421] Code: 0f 84 3a ff ff ff 41 0f b7 74 ec 02 66 89 b0 22 02 00 00 81 e6 ff 1f 00 00 e8 ec fd ff ff e9 35 ff ff ff 48 8b 43 30 49 63 ed <41> 0f b7 34 24 41 83 c5 01 48 8b 3c e8 66 89 b7 aa 02 00 00 81 e6
[1026677.300877] RSP: 0018:ff3be62a6399bcc0 EFLAGS: 00010202
[1026677.306556] RAX: ff28691e28980828 RBX: ff28691e41099828 RCX: 0000000000188000
[1026677.314148] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000010 RDI: ff28691e41099828
[1026677.321730] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[1026677.329311] R10: 0000000000000007 R11: ffffffffffffffc0 R12: 0000000000000010
[1026677.336896] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ff28691e0eaa81a0
[1026677.344472] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff28693cbffc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[1026677.353000] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[1026677.359195] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000128df4001 CR4: 0000000000771ef0
[1026677.366779] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[1026677.374369] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[1026677.381952] PKRU: 55555554
[1026677.385116] Call Trace:
[1026677.388023] <TASK>
[1026677.390589] ? __die+0x20/0x70
[1026677.394105] ? page_fault_oops+0x82/0x160
[1026677.398576] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x65/0x6a0
[1026677.403307] ? exc_page_fault+0x6a/0x150
[1026677.407694] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
[1026677.412349] ? ice_vsi_rebuild_set_coalesce+0x130/0x1e0 [ice]
[1026677.4186
---truncated--- |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash during module load unload test
During purex packet handling the driver was incorrectly freeing a
pre-allocated structure. Fix this by skipping that entry.
System crashed with the following stack during a module unload test.
Call Trace:
sbitmap_init_node+0x7f/0x1e0
sbitmap_queue_init_node+0x24/0x150
blk_mq_init_bitmaps+0x3d/0xa0
blk_mq_init_tags+0x68/0x90
blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs+0x44/0x120
blk_mq_alloc_set_map_and_rqs+0x63/0x150
blk_mq_alloc_tag_set+0x11b/0x230
scsi_add_host_with_dma.cold+0x3f/0x245
qla2x00_probe_one+0xd5a/0x1b80 [qla2xxx]
Call Trace with slub_debug and debug kernel:
kasan_report_invalid_free+0x50/0x80
__kasan_slab_free+0x137/0x150
slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc6/0x190
kfree+0xe8/0x2e0
qla2x00_free_device+0x3bb/0x5d0 [qla2xxx]
qla2x00_remove_one+0x668/0xcf0 [qla2xxx] |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: CPPC: Avoid out of bounds access when parsing _CPC data
If the NumEntries field in the _CPC return package is less than 2, do
not attempt to access the "Revision" element of that package, because
it may not be present then.
BugLink: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220322143534.GC32582@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
af_netlink: Fix shift out of bounds in group mask calculation
When a netlink message is received, netlink_recvmsg() fills in the address
of the sender. One of the fields is the 32-bit bitfield nl_groups, which
carries the multicast group on which the message was received. The least
significant bit corresponds to group 1, and therefore the highest group
that the field can represent is 32. Above that, the UB sanitizer flags the
out-of-bounds shift attempts.
Which bits end up being set in such case is implementation defined, but
it's either going to be a wrong non-zero value, or zero, which is at least
not misleading. Make the latter choice deterministic by always setting to 0
for higher-numbered multicast groups.
To get information about membership in groups >= 32, userspace is expected
to use nl_pktinfo control messages[0], which are enabled by NETLINK_PKTINFO
socket option.
[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/147608/
The way to trigger this issue is e.g. through monitoring the BRVLAN group:
# bridge monitor vlan &
# ip link add name br type bridge
Which produces the following citation:
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/netlink/af_netlink.c:162:19
shift exponent 32 is too large for 32-bit type 'int' |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix a btf decl_tag bug when tagging a function
syzbot reported a btf decl_tag bug with stack trace below:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 0 PID: 3592 Comm: syz-executor914 Not tainted 5.16.0-syzkaller-11424-gb7892f7d5cb2 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:btf_type_vlen include/linux/btf.h:231 [inline]
RIP: 0010:btf_decl_tag_resolve+0x83e/0xaa0 kernel/bpf/btf.c:3910
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
btf_resolve+0x251/0x1020 kernel/bpf/btf.c:4198
btf_check_all_types kernel/bpf/btf.c:4239 [inline]
btf_parse_type_sec kernel/bpf/btf.c:4280 [inline]
btf_parse kernel/bpf/btf.c:4513 [inline]
btf_new_fd+0x19fe/0x2370 kernel/bpf/btf.c:6047
bpf_btf_load kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4039 [inline]
__sys_bpf+0x1cbb/0x5970 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4679
__do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4738 [inline]
__se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4736 [inline]
__x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xb0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4736
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
The kasan error is triggered with an illegal BTF like below:
type 0: void
type 1: int
type 2: decl_tag to func type 3
type 3: func to func_proto type 8
The total number of types is 4 and the type 3 is illegal
since its func_proto type is out of range.
Currently, the target type of decl_tag can be struct/union, var or func.
Both struct/union and var implemented their own 'resolve' callback functions
and hence handled properly in kernel.
But func type doesn't have 'resolve' callback function. When
btf_decl_tag_resolve() tries to check func type, it tries to get
vlen of its func_proto type, which triggered the above kasan error.
To fix the issue, btf_decl_tag_resolve() needs to do btf_func_check()
before trying to accessing func_proto type.
In the current implementation, func type is checked with
btf_func_check() in the main checking function btf_check_all_types().
To fix the above kasan issue, let us implement 'resolve' callback
func type properly. The 'resolve' callback will be also called
in btf_check_all_types() for func types. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/64s: Don't use DSISR for SLB faults
Since commit 46ddcb3950a2 ("powerpc/mm: Show if a bad page fault on data
is read or write.") we use page_fault_is_write(regs->dsisr) in
__bad_page_fault() to determine if the fault is for a read or write, and
change the message printed accordingly.
But SLB faults, aka Data Segment Interrupts, don't set DSISR (Data
Storage Interrupt Status Register) to a useful value. All ISA versions
from v2.03 through v3.1 specify that the Data Segment Interrupt sets
DSISR "to an undefined value". As far as I can see there's no mention of
SLB faults setting DSISR in any BookIV content either.
This manifests as accesses that should be a read being incorrectly
reported as writes, for example, using the xmon "dump" command:
0:mon> d 0x5deadbeef0000000
5deadbeef0000000
[359526.415354][ C6] BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on write at 0x5deadbeef0000000
[359526.415611][ C6] Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000010a300
cpu 0x6: Vector: 380 (Data SLB Access) at [c00000000ffbf400]
pc: c00000000010a300: mread+0x90/0x190
If we disassemble the PC, we see a load instruction:
0:mon> di c00000000010a300
c00000000010a300 89490000 lbz r10,0(r9)
We can also see in exceptions-64s.S that the data_access_slb block
doesn't set IDSISR=1, which means it doesn't load DSISR into pt_regs. So
the value we're using to determine if the fault is a read/write is some
stale value in pt_regs from a previous page fault.
Rework the printing logic to separate the SLB fault case out, and only
print read/write in the cases where we can determine it.
The result looks like eg:
0:mon> d 0x5deadbeef0000000
5deadbeef0000000
[ 721.779525][ C6] BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access at 0x5deadbeef0000000
[ 721.779697][ C6] Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000014cbe0
cpu 0x6: Vector: 380 (Data SLB Access) at [c00000000ffbf390]
0:mon> d 0
0000000000000000
[ 742.793242][ C6] BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x00000000
[ 742.793316][ C6] Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000014cbe0
cpu 0x6: Vector: 380 (Data SLB Access) at [c00000000ffbf390] |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, sockmap: Fix double uncharge the mem of sk_msg
If tcp_bpf_sendmsg is running during a tear down operation, psock may be
freed.
tcp_bpf_sendmsg()
tcp_bpf_send_verdict()
sk_msg_return()
tcp_bpf_sendmsg_redir()
unlikely(!psock))
sk_msg_free()
The mem of msg has been uncharged in tcp_bpf_send_verdict() by
sk_msg_return(), and would be uncharged by sk_msg_free() again. When psock
is null, we can simply returning an error code, this would then trigger
the sk_msg_free_nocharge in the error path of __SK_REDIRECT and would have
the side effect of throwing an error up to user space. This would be a
slight change in behavior from user side but would look the same as an
error if the redirect on the socket threw an error.
This issue can cause the following info:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2136 at net/ipv4/af_inet.c:155 inet_sock_destruct+0x13c/0x260
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__sk_destruct+0x24/0x1f0
sk_psock_destroy+0x19b/0x1c0
process_one_work+0x1b3/0x3c0
worker_thread+0x30/0x350
? process_one_work+0x3c0/0x3c0
kthread+0xe6/0x110
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
</TASK> |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
watch_queue: Fix NULL dereference in error cleanup
In watch_queue_set_size(), the error cleanup code doesn't take account of
the fact that __free_page() can't handle a NULL pointer when trying to free
up buffer pages that did get allocated.
Fix this by only calling __free_page() on the pages actually allocated.
Without the fix, this can lead to something like the following:
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __free_pages+0x1f/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5473
Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000034 by task syz-executor168/3599
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:446 [inline]
kasan_report.cold+0x66/0xdf mm/kasan/report.c:459
check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline]
kasan_check_range+0x13d/0x180 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline]
atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:27 [inline]
page_ref_count include/linux/page_ref.h:67 [inline]
put_page_testzero include/linux/mm.h:717 [inline]
__free_pages+0x1f/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5473
watch_queue_set_size+0x499/0x630 kernel/watch_queue.c:275
pipe_ioctl+0xac/0x2b0 fs/pipe.c:632
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:860
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
watch_queue: Actually free the watch
free_watch() does everything barring actually freeing the watch object. Fix
this by adding the missing kfree.
kmemleak produces a report something like the following. Note that as an
address can be seen in the first word, the watch would appear to have gone
through call_rcu().
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810ce4a200 (size 96):
comm "syz-executor352", pid 3605, jiffies 4294947473 (age 13.720s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
e0 82 48 0d 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..H.............
80 a2 e4 0c 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8214e6cc>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:581 [inline]
[<ffffffff8214e6cc>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:714 [inline]
[<ffffffff8214e6cc>] keyctl_watch_key+0xec/0x2e0 security/keys/keyctl.c:1800
[<ffffffff8214ec84>] __do_sys_keyctl+0x3c4/0x490 security/keys/keyctl.c:2016
[<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
[<ffffffff84600068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: usb: go7007: s2250-board: fix leak in probe()
Call i2c_unregister_device(audio) on this error path. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: sysfb: fix platform-device leak in error path
Make sure to free the platform device also in the unlikely event that
registration fails. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: pcm: Fix potential AB/BA lock with buffer_mutex and mmap_lock
syzbot caught a potential deadlock between the PCM
runtime->buffer_mutex and the mm->mmap_lock. It was brought by the
recent fix to cover the racy read/write and other ioctls, and in that
commit, I overlooked a (hopefully only) corner case that may take the
revert lock, namely, the OSS mmap. The OSS mmap operation
exceptionally allows to re-configure the parameters inside the OSS
mmap syscall, where mm->mmap_mutex is already held. Meanwhile, the
copy_from/to_user calls at read/write operations also take the
mm->mmap_lock internally, hence it may lead to a AB/BA deadlock.
A similar problem was already seen in the past and we fixed it with a
refcount (in commit b248371628aa). The former fix covered only the
call paths with OSS read/write and OSS ioctls, while we need to cover
the concurrent access via both ALSA and OSS APIs now.
This patch addresses the problem above by replacing the buffer_mutex
lock in the read/write operations with a refcount similar as we've
used for OSS. The new field, runtime->buffer_accessing, keeps the
number of concurrent read/write operations. Unlike the former
buffer_mutex protection, this protects only around the
copy_from/to_user() calls; the other codes are basically protected by
the PCM stream lock. The refcount can be a negative, meaning blocked
by the ioctls. If a negative value is seen, the read/write aborts
with -EBUSY. In the ioctl side, OTOH, they check this refcount, too,
and set to a negative value for blocking unless it's already being
accessed. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: SOF: Intel: Fix NULL ptr dereference when ENOMEM
Do not call snd_dma_free_pages() when snd_dma_alloc_pages() returns
-ENOMEM because it leads to a NULL pointer dereference bug.
The dmesg says:
[ T1387] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: error: memory alloc failed: -12
[ T1387] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[ T1387] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ T1387] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ T1387] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ T1387] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ T1387] CPU: 6 PID: 1387 Comm: alsa-sink-HDA A Tainted: G W 5.17.0-rc4-superb-owl-00055-g80d47f5de5e3
[ T1387] Hardware name: HP HP Laptop 14s-dq2xxx/87FD, BIOS F.15 09/15/2021
[ T1387] RIP: 0010:dma_free_noncontiguous+0x37/0x80
[ T1387] Code: [... snip ...]
[ T1387] RSP: 0000:ffffc90002b87770 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ T1387] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ T1387] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888101db30d0
[ T1387] RBP: 00000000fffffff4 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ T1387] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffc90002b874d0 R12: 0000000000000001
[ T1387] R13: 0000000000058000 R14: ffff888105260c68 R15: ffff888105260828
[ T1387] FS: 00007f42e2ffd640(0000) GS:ffff888466b80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ T1387] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ T1387] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000014acf0003 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
[ T1387] PKRU: 55555554
[ T1387] Call Trace:
[ T1387] <TASK>
[ T1387] cl_stream_prepare+0x10a/0x120 [snd_sof_intel_hda_common 146addf995b9279ae7f509621078cccbe4f875e1]
[... snip ...]
[ T1387] </TASK> |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
brcmfmac: pcie: Release firmwares in the brcmf_pcie_setup error path
This avoids leaking memory if brcmf_chip_get_raminfo fails. Note that
the CLM blob is released in the device remove path. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
driver core: Fix wait_for_device_probe() & deferred_probe_timeout interaction
Mounting NFS rootfs was timing out when deferred_probe_timeout was
non-zero [1]. This was because ip_auto_config() initcall times out
waiting for the network interfaces to show up when
deferred_probe_timeout was non-zero. While ip_auto_config() calls
wait_for_device_probe() to make sure any currently running deferred
probe work or asynchronous probe finishes, that wasn't sufficient to
account for devices being deferred until deferred_probe_timeout.
Commit 35a672363ab3 ("driver core: Ensure wait_for_device_probe() waits
until the deferred_probe_timeout fires") tried to fix that by making
sure wait_for_device_probe() waits for deferred_probe_timeout to expire
before returning.
However, if wait_for_device_probe() is called from the kernel_init()
context:
- Before deferred_probe_initcall() [2], it causes the boot process to
hang due to a deadlock.
- After deferred_probe_initcall() [3], it blocks kernel_init() from
continuing till deferred_probe_timeout expires and beats the point of
deferred_probe_timeout that's trying to wait for userspace to load
modules.
Neither of this is good. So revert the changes to
wait_for_device_probe().
[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/TYAPR01MB45443DF63B9EF29054F7C41FD8C60@TYAPR01MB4544.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com/
[2] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YowHNo4sBjr9ijZr@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
[3] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yo3WvGnNk3LvLb7R@linutronix.de/ |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mdio: unexport __init-annotated mdio_bus_init()
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,
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c is never compiled as modular.
(CONFIG_PHYLIB is boolean) |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init()
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,
net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c is never compiled as modular.
(CONFIG_XFRM is boolean) |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ipv6: unexport __init-annotated seg6_hmac_init()
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 caller (net/ipv6/seg6.c)
and the callee (net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c) belong to the same module.
It seems an internal function call in ipv6.ko. |
