linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-49799: tracing: Fix wild-memory-access in register_synth

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Message-ID: <2025050125-CVE-2022-49799-4400@gregkh>
Date: Thu,  1 May 2025 16:09:49 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49799: tracing: Fix wild-memory-access in register_synth_event()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49799 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.17 with commit 4b147936fa509650beaf638b331573c23ba4d609 and fixed in 5.10.156 with commit 315b149f08229a233d47532eb5da1707b28f764c
	Issue introduced in 4.17 with commit 4b147936fa509650beaf638b331573c23ba4d609 and fixed in 5.15.80 with commit 6517b97134f724d12f673f9fb4f456d75c7a905f
	Issue introduced in 4.17 with commit 4b147936fa509650beaf638b331573c23ba4d609 and fixed in 6.0.10 with commit a5bfa53e5036b3e7a80be902dd3719a930accabd
	Issue introduced in 4.17 with commit 4b147936fa509650beaf638b331573c23ba4d609 and fixed in 6.1 with commit 1b5f1c34d3f5a664a57a5a7557a50e4e3cc2505c

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-49799
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/315b149f08229a233d47532eb5da1707b28f764c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6517b97134f724d12f673f9fb4f456d75c7a905f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5bfa53e5036b3e7a80be902dd3719a930accabd
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b5f1c34d3f5a664a57a5a7557a50e4e3cc2505c