fkie_cve-2022-49345
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-02-26 07:01
Modified
2025-09-22 20:27
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init()
EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text
section is freed up after the initialization. Hence, modules cannot
use symbols annotated __init. The access to a freed symbol may end up
with kernel panic.
modpost used to detect it, but it has been broken for a decade.
Recently, I fixed modpost so it started to warn it again, then this
showed up in linux-next builds.
There are two ways to fix it:
- Remove __init
- Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL
I chose the latter for this case because the only in-tree call-site,
net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c is never compiled as modular.
(CONFIG_XFRM is boolean)
References
Impacted products
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linux | linux_kernel | 5.19 |
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Hence, modules cannot\nuse symbols annotated __init. The access to a freed symbol may end up\nwith kernel panic.\n\nmodpost used to detect it, but it has been broken for a decade.\n\nRecently, I fixed modpost so it started to warn it again, then this\nshowed up in linux-next builds.\n\nThere are two ways to fix it:\n\n - Remove __init\n - Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL\n\nI chose the latter for this case because the only in-tree call-site,\nnet/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c is never compiled as modular.\n(CONFIG_XFRM is boolean)" }, { "lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init() EXPORT_SYMBOL y __init es una mala combinaci\u00f3n porque la secci\u00f3n .init.text se libera despu\u00e9s de la inicializaci\u00f3n. Por lo tanto, los m\u00f3dulos no pueden usar s\u00edmbolos anotados __init. 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