VYPR
Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 9, 2025· Updated Jan 2, 2026

bpf: Fix deadlock between rcu_tasks_trace and event_mutex.

CVE-2025-37884

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.

Affected products

80

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

2

News mentions

0

No linked articles in our index yet.