{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2022-50579", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-10-22T13:20:23.762Z", "datePublished": "2025-10-22T13:23:32.242Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-23T15:24:47.340Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-23T15:24:47.340Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\narm64: ftrace: fix module PLTs with mcount\n\nLi Huafei reports that mcount-based ftrace with module PLTs was broken\nby commit:\n\n a6253579977e4c6f (\"arm64: ftrace: consistently handle PLTs.\")\n\nWhen a module PLTs are used and a module is loaded sufficiently far away\nfrom the kernel, we'll create PLTs for any branches which are\nout-of-range. These are separate from the special ftrace trampoline\nPLTs, which the module PLT code doesn't directly manipulate.\n\nWhen mcount is in use this is a problem, as each mcount callsite in a\nmodule will be initialized to point to a module PLT, but since commit\na6253579977e4c6f ftrace_make_nop() will assume that the callsite has\nbeen initialized to point to the special ftrace trampoline PLT, and\nftrace_find_callable_addr() rejects other cases.\n\nThis means that when ftrace tries to initialize a callsite via\nftrace_make_nop(), the call to ftrace_find_callable_addr() will find\nthat the `_mcount` stub is out-of-range and is not handled by the ftrace\nPLT, resulting in a splat:\n\n| ftrace_test: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.\n| ftrace: no module PLT for _mcount\n| ------------[ ftrace bug ]------------\n| ftrace failed to modify\n| [] 0xffff800029180014\n| actual: 44:00:00:94\n| Initializing ftrace call sites\n| ftrace record flags: 2000000\n| (0)\n| expected tramp: ffff80000802eb3c\n| ------------[ cut here ]------------\n| WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 157 at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:2120 ftrace_bug+0x94/0x270\n| Modules linked in:\n| CPU: 3 PID: 157 Comm: insmod Tainted: G O 6.0.0-rc6-00151-gcd722513a189-dirty #22\n| Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)\n| pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n| pc : ftrace_bug+0x94/0x270\n| lr : ftrace_bug+0x21c/0x270\n| sp : ffff80000b2bbaf0\n| x29: ffff80000b2bbaf0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff0000c4d38000\n| x26: 0000000000000001 x25: ffff800009d7e000 x24: ffff0000c4d86e00\n| x23: 0000000002000000 x22: ffff80000a62b000 x21: ffff8000098ebea8\n| x20: ffff0000c4d38000 x19: ffff80000aa24158 x18: ffffffffffffffff\n| x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0a0d2d2d2d2d2d2d x15: ffff800009aa9118\n| x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 6333626532303830 x12: 3030303866666666\n| x11: 203a706d61727420 x10: 6465746365707865 x9 : 3362653230383030\n| x8 : c0000000ffffefff x7 : 0000000000017fe8 x6 : 000000000000bff4\n| x5 : 0000000000057fa8 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000001\n| x2 : ad2cb14bb5438900 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000022\n| Call trace:\n| ftrace_bug+0x94/0x270\n| ftrace_process_locs+0x308/0x430\n| ftrace_module_init+0x44/0x60\n| load_module+0x15b4/0x1ce8\n| __do_sys_init_module+0x1ec/0x238\n| __arm64_sys_init_module+0x24/0x30\n| invoke_syscall+0x54/0x118\n| el0_svc_common.constprop.4+0x84/0x100\n| do_el0_svc+0x3c/0xd0\n| el0_svc+0x1c/0x50\n| el0t_64_sync_handler+0x90/0xb8\n| el0t_64_sync+0x15c/0x160\n| ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n| ---------test_init-----------\n\nFix this by reverting to the old behaviour of ignoring the old\ninstruction when initialising an mcount callsite in a module, which was\nthe behaviour prior to commit a6253579977e4c6f." } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c" ], 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