vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2025-37884: kernel: bpf: Fix deadlock between rcu_tasks_trace and event_mutex.
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 9, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix deadlock between rcu_tasks_trace and event_mutex.
Fix the following deadlock:
CPU A
_free_event()
perf_kprobe_destroy()
mutex_lock(&event_mutex)
perf_trace_event_unreg()
synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace()
There are several paths where _free_event() grabs event_mutex
and calls sync_rcu_tasks_trace. Above is one such case.
CPU B
bpf_prog_test_run_syscall()
rcu_read_lock_trace()
bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu()
bpf_prog_load()
bpf_tracing_func_proto()
trace_set_clr_event()
mutex_lock(&event_mutex)
Delegate trace_set_clr_event() to workqueue to avoid
such lock dependency.
Solution
References
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