linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50862: bpf: prevent decl_tag from being referenced in func

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Message-ID: <2025123048-CVE-2022-50862-124f@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:19:58 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50862: bpf: prevent decl_tag from being referenced in func_proto

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

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

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

bpf: prevent decl_tag from being referenced in func_proto

Syzkaller was able to hit the following issue:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3609 at kernel/bpf/btf.c:1946
btf_type_id_size+0x2d5/0x9d0 kernel/bpf/btf.c:1946
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 3609 Comm: syz-executor361 Not tainted
6.0.0-syzkaller-02734-g0326074ff465 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
Google 09/22/2022
RIP: 0010:btf_type_id_size+0x2d5/0x9d0 kernel/bpf/btf.c:1946
Code: ef e8 7f 8e e4 ff 41 83 ff 0b 77 28 f6 44 24 10 18 75 3f e8 6d 91
e4 ff 44 89 fe bf 0e 00 00 00 e8 20 8e e4 ff e8 5b 91 e4 ff <0f> 0b 45
31 f6 e9 98 02 00 00 41 83 ff 12 74 18 e8 46 91 e4 ff 44
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003cefb40 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff8880259c0000 RSI: ffffffff81968415 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: ffff88801270ca00 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 000000000000000e
R10: 0000000000000011 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000011 R14: ffff888026ee6424 R15: 0000000000000011
FS:  000055555641b300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9a00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000f2e258 CR3: 000000007110e000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 btf_func_proto_check kernel/bpf/btf.c:4447 [inline]
 btf_check_all_types kernel/bpf/btf.c:4723 [inline]
 btf_parse_type_sec kernel/bpf/btf.c:4752 [inline]
 btf_parse kernel/bpf/btf.c:5026 [inline]
 btf_new_fd+0x1926/0x1e70 kernel/bpf/btf.c:6892
 bpf_btf_load kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4324 [inline]
 __sys_bpf+0xb7d/0x4cf0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5010
 __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5069 [inline]
 __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5067 [inline]
 __x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xb0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5067
 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+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7f0fbae41c69
Code: 28 c3 e8 2a 14 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89
f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01
f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffc8aeb6228 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000141
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f0fbae41c69
RDX: 0000000000000020 RSI: 0000000020000140 RDI: 0000000000000012
RBP: 00007f0fbae05e10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f0fbae05ea0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>

Looks like it tries to create a func_proto which return type is
decl_tag. For the details, see Martin's spot on analysis in [0].

0: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAKH8qBuQDLva_hHxxBuZzyAcYNO4ejhovz6TQeVSk8HY-2SO6g@mail.gmail.com/T/#mea6524b3fcd6298347432226e81b1e6155efc62c

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50862 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.16 with commit bd16dee66ae4de3f1726c69ac901d2b7a53b0c86 and fixed in 6.0.7 with commit e9dbb4c539d058852b76937dcd7347d3f38054f2
	Issue introduced in 5.16 with commit bd16dee66ae4de3f1726c69ac901d2b7a53b0c86 and fixed in 6.1 with commit ea68376c8bed5cd156900852aada20c3a0874d17

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-2022-50862
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/bpf/btf.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/e9dbb4c539d058852b76937dcd7347d3f38054f2
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea68376c8bed5cd156900852aada20c3a0874d17