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Tracker / CVE-2022-49726

CVE-2022-49726

Medium 5.5

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)

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.49
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.18.6
linux linux_kernel · 5.3 → 5.4.200
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.124

Analysis

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