linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50648: ftrace: Fix recursive locking direct_mutex in ftrace_modify_direct

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <2025120937-CVE-2022-50648-ac1e@gregkh>
Date: Tue,  9 Dec 2025 09:01:49 +0900
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50648: ftrace: Fix recursive locking direct_mutex in ftrace_modify_direct_caller

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

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

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

ftrace: Fix recursive locking direct_mutex in ftrace_modify_direct_caller

Naveen reported recursive locking of direct_mutex with sample
ftrace-direct-modify.ko:

[   74.762406] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
[   74.762887] 6.0.0-rc6+ #33 Not tainted
[   74.763216] --------------------------------------------
[   74.763672] event-sample-fn/1084 is trying to acquire lock:
[   74.764152] ffffffff86c9d6b0 (direct_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: \
    register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.764922]
[   74.764922] but task is already holding lock:
[   74.765421] ffffffff86c9d6b0 (direct_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: \
    modify_ftrace_direct+0x34/0x1f0
[   74.766142]
[   74.766142] other info that might help us debug this:
[   74.766701]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[   74.766701]
[   74.767216]        CPU0
[   74.767437]        ----
[   74.767656]   lock(direct_mutex);
[   74.767952]   lock(direct_mutex);
[   74.768245]
[   74.768245]  *** DEADLOCK ***
[   74.768245]
[   74.768750]  May be due to missing lock nesting notation
[   74.768750]
[   74.769332] 1 lock held by event-sample-fn/1084:
[   74.769731]  #0: ffffffff86c9d6b0 (direct_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: \
    modify_ftrace_direct+0x34/0x1f0
[   74.770496]
[   74.770496] stack backtrace:
[   74.770884] CPU: 4 PID: 1084 Comm: event-sample-fn Not tainted ...
[   74.771498] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), ...
[   74.772474] Call Trace:
[   74.772696]  <TASK>
[   74.772896]  dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5b
[   74.773223]  __lock_acquire.cold.74+0xac/0x2b7
[   74.773616]  lock_acquire+0xd2/0x310
[   74.773936]  ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.774357]  ? lock_is_held_type+0xd8/0x130
[   74.774744]  ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.775213]  __mutex_lock+0x99/0x1010
[   74.775536]  ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.775954]  ? slab_free_freelist_hook.isra.43+0x115/0x160
[   74.776424]  ? ftrace_set_hash+0x195/0x220
[   74.776779]  ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.777194]  ? kfree+0x3e1/0x440
[   74.777482]  ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.777941]  ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[   74.778258]  ? register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.778672]  ? my_tramp1+0xf/0xf [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.779128]  register_ftrace_function+0x1f/0x180
[   74.779527]  ? ftrace_set_filter_ip+0x33/0x70
[   74.779910]  ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[   74.780231]  ? my_tramp1+0xf/0xf [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.780678]  ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.781147]  ftrace_modify_direct_caller+0x5b/0x90
[   74.781563]  ? 0xffffffffa0201000
[   74.781859]  ? my_tramp1+0xf/0xf [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.782309]  modify_ftrace_direct+0x1b2/0x1f0
[   74.782690]  ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[   74.783014]  ? simple_thread+0x2a/0xb0 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.783508]  ? __schedule+0xb40/0xb40
[   74.783832]  ? my_tramp2+0x11/0x11 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.784294]  simple_thread+0x76/0xb0 [ftrace_direct_modify]
[   74.784766]  kthread+0xf5/0x120
[   74.785052]  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[   74.785464]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[   74.785781]  </TASK>

Fix this by using register_ftrace_function_nolock in
ftrace_modify_direct_caller.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50648 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.0 with commit 53cd885bc5c3ea283cc9c00ca6446c778f00bfba and fixed in 6.0.3 with commit 2482eacb685b6500e158268befbe6c90de5f166a
	Issue introduced in 6.0 with commit 53cd885bc5c3ea283cc9c00ca6446c778f00bfba and fixed in 6.1 with commit 9d2ce78ddcee159eb6a97449e9c68b6d60b9cec4

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-2022-50648
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/ftrace.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/2482eacb685b6500e158268befbe6c90de5f166a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d2ce78ddcee159eb6a97449e9c68b6d60b9cec4