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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49764"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:04.252Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:06:19.784Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49764"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49764.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49764"
title: "bpf: Prevent bpf program recursion for raw tracepoint probes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Prevent bpf program recursion for raw tracepoint probes\n\nWe got report from sysbot [1] about warnings that were caused by\nbpf program attached to contention_begin raw tracepoint triggering\nthe same tracepoint by using bpf_trace_printk helper that takes\ntrace_printk_lock lock.\n\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  ? trace_event_raw_event_bpf_trace_printk+0x5f/0x90\n  bpf_trace_printk+0x2b/0xe0\n  bpf_prog_a9aec6167c091eef_prog+0x1f/0x24\n  bpf_trace_run2+0x26/0x90\n  native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x1c6/0x2b0\n  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x44/0x50\n  bpf_trace_printk+0x3f/0xe0\n  bpf_prog_a9aec6167c091eef_prog+0x1f/0x24\n  bpf_trace_run2+0x26/0x90\n  native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x1c6/0x2b0\n  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x44/0x50\n  bpf_trace_printk+0x3f/0xe0\n  bpf_prog_a9aec6167c091eef_prog+0x1f/0x24\n  bpf_trace_run2+0x26/0x90\n  native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x1c6/0x2b0\n  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x44/0x50\n  bpf_trace_printk+0x3f/0xe0\n  bpf_prog_a9aec6167c091eef_prog+0x1f/0x24\n  bpf_trace_run2+0x26/0x90\n  native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x1c6/0x2b0\n  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x44/0x50\n  __unfreeze_partials+0x5b/0x160\n  ...\n\nThe can be reproduced by attaching bpf program as raw tracepoint on\ncontention_begin tracepoint. The bpf prog calls bpf_trace_printk\nhelper. Then by running perf bench the spin lock code is forced to\ntake slow path and call contention_begin tracepoint.\n\nFixing this by skipping execution of the bpf program if it's\nalready running, Using bpf prog 'active' field, which is being\ncurrently used by trampoline programs for the same reason.\n\nMoving bpf_prog_inc_misses_counter to syscall.c because\ntrampoline.c is compiled in just for CONFIG_BPF_JIT option.\n\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/YxhFe3EwqchC%2FfYf@krava/T/#t"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c4f6699dfcb8558d138fe838f741b2c10f416cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e5399879024fedd6cdc41f73fbf9bbe7208f899"},{"version":"c4f6699dfcb8558d138fe838f741b2c10f416cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"05b24ff9b2cfabfcfd951daaa915a036ab53c9e1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.17"},{"version":"6.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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