linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50078: tracing/eprobes: Do not allow eprobes to use $stack, or % for regs

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Message-ID: <2025061855-CVE-2022-50078-54e5@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:02:23 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50078: tracing/eprobes: Do not allow eprobes to use $stack, or % for regs

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

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

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

tracing/eprobes: Do not allow eprobes to use $stack, or % for regs

While playing with event probes (eprobes), I tried to see what would
happen if I attempted to retrieve the instruction pointer (%rip) knowing
that event probes do not use pt_regs. The result was:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000024
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 1 PID: 1847 Comm: trace-cmd Not tainted 5.19.0-rc5-test+ #309
 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01
v03.03 07/14/2016
 RIP: 0010:get_event_field.isra.0+0x0/0x50
 Code: ff 48 c7 c7 c0 8f 74 a1 e8 3d 8b f5 ff e8 88 09 f6 ff 4c 89 e7 e8
50 6a 13 00 48 89 ef 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d e9 42 6a 13 00 66 90 <48> 63 47 24
8b 57 2c 48 01 c6 8b 47 28 83 f8 02 74 0e 83 f8 04 74
 RSP: 0018:ffff916c394bbaf0 EFLAGS: 00010086
 RAX: ffff916c854041d8 RBX: ffff916c8d9fbf50 RCX: ffff916c255d2000
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff916c255d2008 RDI: 0000000000000000
 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff916c3a2a0c08 R09: ffff916c394bbda8
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff916c854041d8
 R13: ffff916c854041b0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff916c9ea40000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000024 CR3: 000000011b60a002 CR4: 00000000001706e0
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  get_eprobe_size+0xb4/0x640
  ? __mod_node_page_state+0x72/0xc0
  __eprobe_trace_func+0x59/0x1a0
  ? __mod_lruvec_page_state+0xaa/0x1b0
  ? page_remove_file_rmap+0x14/0x230
  ? page_remove_rmap+0xda/0x170
  event_triggers_call+0x52/0xe0
  trace_event_buffer_commit+0x18f/0x240
  trace_event_raw_event_sched_wakeup_template+0x7a/0xb0
  try_to_wake_up+0x260/0x4c0
  __wake_up_common+0x80/0x180
  __wake_up_common_lock+0x7c/0xc0
  do_notify_parent+0x1c9/0x2a0
  exit_notify+0x1a9/0x220
  do_exit+0x2ba/0x450
  do_group_exit+0x2d/0x90
  __x64_sys_exit_group+0x14/0x20
  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Obviously this is not the desired result.

Move the testing for TPARG_FL_TPOINT which is only used for event probes
to the top of the "$" variable check, as all the other variables are not
used for event probes. Also add a check in the register parsing "%" to
fail if an event probe is used.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50078 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 7491e2c442781a1860181adb5ab472a52075f393 and fixed in 5.15.63 with commit ba53c21ce9773743b8e0a8ada048c96ff2d55c67
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 7491e2c442781a1860181adb5ab472a52075f393 and fixed in 5.19.4 with commit 7c262114a576d94c0ced80e232bbb17391a55908
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 7491e2c442781a1860181adb5ab472a52075f393 and fixed in 6.0 with commit 2673c60ee67e71f2ebe34386e62d348f71edee47

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-2022-50078
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_probe.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/ba53c21ce9773743b8e0a8ada048c96ff2d55c67
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c262114a576d94c0ced80e232bbb17391a55908
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2673c60ee67e71f2ebe34386e62d348f71edee47