Affected: Linux

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

kprobes: don't call disarm_kprobe() for disabled kprobes

The assumption in __disable_kprobe() is wrong, and it could try to disarm an already disarmed kprobe and fire the WARN_ONCE() below. [0] We can easily reproduce this issue.

1. Write 0 to /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/enabled.

# echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/enabled

2. Run execsnoop. At this time, one kprobe is disabled.

# /usr/share/bcc/tools/execsnoop & [1] 2460 PCOMM PID PPID RET ARGS

# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list ffffffff91345650 r __x64_sys_execve+0x0 [FTRACE] ffffffff91345650 k __x64_sys_execve+0x0 [DISABLED][FTRACE]

3. Write 1 to /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/enabled, which changes kprobes_all_disarmed to false but does not arm the disabled kprobe.

# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/enabled

# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list ffffffff91345650 r __x64_sys_execve+0x0 [FTRACE] ffffffff91345650 k __x64_sys_execve+0x0 [DISABLED][FTRACE]

4. Kill execsnoop, when __disable_kprobe() calls disarm_kprobe() for the disabled kprobe and hits the WARN_ONCE() in __disarm_kprobe_ftrace().

# fg /usr/share/bcc/tools/execsnoop ^C

Actually, WARN_ONCE() is fired twice, and __unregister_kprobe_top() misses some cleanups and leaves the aggregated kprobe in the hash table. Then, __unregister_trace_kprobe() initialises tk->rp.kp.list and creates an infinite loop like this.

aggr…