This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ftrace: Fix null pointer dereference in ftrace_add_mod() to the 6.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ftrace-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-ftrace_add_mod.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 19ba6c8af9382c4c05dc6a0a79af3013b9a35cd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 09:52:07 +0800 Subject: ftrace: Fix null pointer dereference in ftrace_add_mod() From: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 19ba6c8af9382c4c05dc6a0a79af3013b9a35cd0 upstream. The @ftrace_mod is allocated by kzalloc(), so both the members {prev,next} of @ftrace_mode->list are NULL, it's not a valid state to call list_del(). If kstrdup() for @ftrace_mod->{func|module} fails, it goes to @out_free tag and calls free_ftrace_mod() to destroy @ftrace_mod, then list_del() will write prev->next and next->prev, where null pointer dereference happens. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI Call Trace: <TASK> ftrace_mod_callback+0x20d/0x220 ? do_filp_open+0xd9/0x140 ftrace_process_regex.isra.51+0xbf/0x130 ftrace_regex_write.isra.52.part.53+0x6e/0x90 vfs_write+0xee/0x3a0 ? __audit_filter_op+0xb1/0x100 ? auditd_test_task+0x38/0x50 ksys_write+0xa5/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception So call INIT_LIST_HEAD() to initialize the list member to fix this issue. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221116015207.30858-1-xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 673feb9d76ab ("ftrace: Add :mod: caching infrastructure to trace_array") Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -1289,6 +1289,7 @@ static int ftrace_add_mod(struct trace_a if (!ftrace_mod) return -ENOMEM; + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ftrace_mod->list); ftrace_mod->func = kstrdup(func, GFP_KERNEL); ftrace_mod->module = kstrdup(module, GFP_KERNEL); ftrace_mod->enable = enable; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.0/ftrace-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-ftrace_add_mod.patch