Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
High · 7.8 CVE-2022-49892 EUVD-2025-12863GHSA-w983-x7cf-qq48

ftrace: Fix use-after-free for dynamic ftrace_ops

Published May 1, 2025 · Updated Oct 15, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.15 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.4 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-fips Package: linux-aws-hwe Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-4.15 Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.15 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.4 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-fips Package: linux-bluefield Package: linux-fips Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-4.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.4 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gcp-fips Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.4 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-ibm-5.4 Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-intel-iotg Package: linux-intel-iotg-5.15 Package: linux-iot Package: linux-kvm Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-lts-xenial Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.15 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.4 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-5.4 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.15 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Package: linux-vmware Package: linux-xilinx-zynqmp Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

ftrace: Fix use-after-free for dynamic ftrace_ops

KASAN reported a use-after-free with ftrace ops [1]. It was found from
vmcore that perf had registered two ops with the same content
successively, both dynamic. After unregistering the second ops, a
use-after-free occurred.

In ftrace_shutdown(), when the second ops is unregistered, the
FTRACE_UPDATE_CALLS command is not set because there is another enabled
ops with the same content. Also, both ops are dynamic and the ftrace
callback function is ftrace_ops_list_func, so the
FTRACE_UPDATE_TRACE_FUNC command will not be set. Eventually the value
of 'command' will be 0 and ftrace_shutdown() will skip the rcu
synchronization.

However, ftrace may be activated. When the ops is released, another CPU
may be accessing the ops. Add the missing synchronization to fix this
problem.

[1]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __ftrace_ops_list_func kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7020 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ftrace_ops_list_func+0x2b0/0x31c kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7049
Read of size 8 at addr ffff56551965bbc8 by task syz-executor.2/14468

CPU: 1 PID: 14468 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 5.10.0 #7
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x40c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:132
show_stack+0x30/0x40 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:196
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
dump_stack+0x1b4/0x248 lib/dump_stack.c:118
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x28/0x48c mm/kasan/report.c:387
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:547 [inline]
kasan_report+0x118/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:564
check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:187 [inline]
__asan_load8+0x98/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:253
__ftrace_ops_list_func kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7020 [inline]
ftrace_ops_list_func+0x2b0/0x31c kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7049
ftrace_graph_call+0x0/0x4
__might_sleep+0x8/0x100 include/linux/perf_event.h:1170
__might_fault mm/memory.c:5183 [inline]
__might_fault+0x58/0x70 mm/memory.c:5171
do_strncpy_from_user lib/strncpy_from_user.c:41 [inline]
strncpy_from_user+0x1f4/0x4b0 lib/strncpy_from_user.c:139
getname_flags+0xb0/0x31c fs/namei.c:149
getname+0x2c/0x40 fs/namei.c:209
[...]

Allocated by task 14445:
kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:48
kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:479 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0x110/0x13c mm/kasan/common.c:449
kasan_kmalloc+0xc/0x14 mm/kasan/common.c:493
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x440/0x924 mm/slub.c:2950
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:563 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:675 [inline]
perf_event_alloc.part.0+0xb4/0x1350 kernel/events/core.c:11230
perf_event_alloc kernel/events/core.c:11733 [inline]
__do_sys_perf_event_open kernel/events/core.c:11831 [inline]
__se_sys_perf_event_open+0x550/0x15f4 kernel/events/core.c:11723
__arm64_sys_perf_event_open+0x6c/0x80 kernel/events/core.c:11723
[...]

Freed by task 14445:
kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:48
kasan_set_track+0x24/0x34 mm/kasan/common.c:56
kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:358
__kasan_slab_free.part.0+0x11c/0x1b0 mm/kasan/common.c:437
__kasan_slab_free mm/kasan/common.c:445 [inline]
kasan_slab_free+0x2c/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:446
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1569 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook mm/slub.c:1608 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:3179 [inline]
kfree+0x12c/0xc10 mm/slub.c:4176
perf_event_alloc.part.0+0xa0c/0x1350 kernel/events/core.c:11434
perf_event_alloc kernel/events/core.c:11733 [inline]
__do_sys_perf_event_open kernel/events/core.c:11831 [inline]
__se_sys_perf_event_open+0x550/0x15f4 kernel/events/core.c:11723
[...]

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 4.1.45 – < 4.2, 4.4.89 – < 4.5, 4.9.52 – < 4.10, 4.13.4 – < 4.14, 4.14 4.2

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.0.8-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.0.8-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.0.8-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1014.16 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-realtime +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-60.66 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1030.34 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1033.40 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1033.40.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1029.36 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke 5.15.0-1027.32 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1015.19 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1025.28 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1025.30 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1028.33 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1017.17 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1029.35 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1024.26 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1030.34~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1033.40~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1029.36~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 +1 5.15.0-60.66~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1025.30~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1029.35~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1029.33~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 11 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux +10 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux +12 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux +7 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-aws +2 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-64kb +6 5.14.21-150500.55.110.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02173-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.110.1.150500.6.51.3 SUSE-SU-2025:02173-1
SLES 15 SP4 kernel-64kb +6 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SLES 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1.150400.24.84.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SLES 15 SP3 kernel-64kb +7 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1
SLES 15 SP3 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1.150300.18.124.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1
SLES 12 SP5 kernel-syms +2 4.12.14-122.261.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01983-1
Show 18 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.110.1.150500.6.51.3 SUSE-SU-2025:02173-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 kernel-docs +4 5.14.21-150500.55.110.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02173-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1.150400.24.84.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 kernel-docs +4 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP3 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1.150300.18.124.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP3 kernel-docs +5 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.110.1.150500.6.51.3 SUSE-SU-2025:02173-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150500.13.97.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01966-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-source +1 5.14.21-150500.55.110.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02173-1
SLE Micro 5.4 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SLE Micro 5.4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1.150400.24.84.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SLE Micro 5.4 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150400.15.121.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01918-1
SLE Micro 5.3 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SLE Micro 5.3 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1.150400.24.84.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SLE Micro 5.3 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150400.15.121.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01918-1
SLE Micro 5.2 kernel-default 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1
SLE Micro 5.2 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1.150300.18.124.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1
SLE Micro 5.2 kernel-rt +1 5.3.18-150300.211.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01995-1
SLE Micro 5.1 kernel-default 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1
SLE Micro 5.1 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1.150300.18.124.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1
SLE Micro 5.1 kernel-rt +1 5.3.18-150300.211.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01995-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.110.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02173-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5_Update_27 1-150500.11.7.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02173-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP4 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP4 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP4_Update_41 1-150400.9.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP3 kernel-default 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP3 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP3_Update_58 1-150300.7.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kernel-default 4.12.14-122.261.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01983-1
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_69 1-8.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01983-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 kernel-64kb +5 5.14.21-150500.55.110.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02173-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.110.1.150500.6.51.3 SUSE-SU-2025:02173-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 kernel-64kb +5 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1.150400.24.84.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SLE HPC 15 SP3 kernel-64kb +6 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1
SLE HPC 15 SP3 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1.150300.18.124.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1.150400.24.84.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 kernel-syms +3 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1.150400.24.84.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 kernel-syms +2 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 kernel-64kb +6 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.207.1.150300.18.124.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01982-1

Advisories 7

References