CVE-2022-49726 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

clocksource: hyper-v: unexport __init-annotated hv_init_clocksource()

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 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c is never compiled as modular. (CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST is boolean)

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0414eab7c78f3518143d383e448d44fc573ac6d2 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/245b993d8f6c4e25f19191edfbd8080b645e12b1 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/937fcbb55a1e48a6422e87e8f49422c92265f102 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cff3a7ce6e81418b6e8bac941779bbf5d342d626 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db965e2757d95f695e606856418cd84003dd036d