CVE: CVE-2025-38285
Published: 2025-07-10
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix WARN() in get_bpf_raw_tp_regs

syzkaller reported an issue:

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 5971 at kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1861 get_bpf_raw_tp_regs+0xa4/0x100 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1861
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 5971 Comm: syz-executor205 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc5-syzkaller-00038-g707df3375124 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:get_bpf_raw_tp_regs+0xa4/0x100 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1861
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003636fa8 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: [PII_REDACTED] RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: ffffffff81c6bc4c
RDX: ffff888032efc880 RSI: ffffffff81c6bc83 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
RBP: ffff88806a730860 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: [PII_REDACTED]
R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: [PII_REDACTED]
R13: [PII_REDACTED] R14: ffffc[PII_REDACTED]8 R15: [PII_REDACTED]
FS:  [PII_REDACTED](0000) GS:ffff8880d6cdf000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
CR2: 00007f7baee09130 CR3:[PII_REDACTED]f5a000 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]352ef0
DR0: [PII_REDACTED] DR1: [PII_REDACTED] DR2: [PII_REDACTED]
DR3: [PII_REDACTED] DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: [PII_REDACTED]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ____bpf_get_stack_raw_tp kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1934 [inline]
 bpf_get_stack_raw_tp+0x24/0x160 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1931
 bpf_prog_ec3b2eefa702d8d3+0x43/0x47
 bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:1316 [inline]
 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:718 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:725 [inline]
 __bpf_trace_run kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:2363 [inline]
 bpf_trace_run3+0x23f/0x5a0 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:2405
 __bpf_trace_mmap_lock_acquire_returned+0xfc/0x140 include/trace/events/mmap_lock.h:47
 __traceiter_mmap_lock_acquire_returned+0x79/0xc0 include/trace/events/mmap_lock.h:47
 __do_trace_mmap_lock_acquire_returned include/trace/events/mmap_lock.h:47 [inline]
 trace_mmap_lock_acquire_returned include/trace/events/mmap_lock.h:47 [inline]
 __mmap_lock_do_trace_acquire_returned+0x138/0x1f0 mm/mmap_lock.c:35
 __mmap_lock_trace_acquire_returned include/linux/mmap_lock.h:36 [inline]
 mmap_read_trylock include/linux/mmap_lock.h:204 [inline]
 stack_map_get_build_id_offset+0x535/0x6f0 kernel/bpf/stackmap.c:157
 __bpf_get_stack+0x307/0xa10 kernel/bpf/stackmap.c:483
 ____bpf_get_stack kernel/bpf/stackmap.c:499 [inline]
 bpf_get_stack+0x32/0x40 kernel/bpf/stackmap.c:496
 ____bpf_get_stack_raw_tp kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1941 [inline]
 bpf_get_stack_raw_tp+0x124/0x160 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1931
 bpf_prog_ec3b2eefa702d8d3+0x43/0x47

Tracepoint like trace_mmap_lock_acquire_returned may cause nested call
as the corner case show above, which will be resolved with more general
method in the future. As a result, WARN_ON_ONCE will be triggered. As
Alexei suggested, remove the WARN_ON_ONCE first.
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-617
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/147ea936fc6fa8fe0c93f0df918803a5375ca535; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18e8cbbae79cb35bdce8a01c889827b9799c762e; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3880cdbed1c4607e378f58fa924c5d6df900d1d3