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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated May 4, 2025

net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init()

CVE-2022-49345

Description

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

net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init()

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, net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c is never compiled as modular. (CONFIG_XFRM is boolean)

Affected products

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Patches

0

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