clocksource: hyper-v: unexport __init-annotated hv_init_clocksource()
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 82% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0414eab7c78f3518143d383e448d44fc573ac6d2https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/245b993d8f6c4e25f19191edfbd8080b645e12b1https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/937fcbb55a1e48a6422e87e8f49422c92265f102https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cff3a7ce6e81418b6e8bac941779bbf5d342d626https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db965e2757d95f695e606856418cd84003dd036d