Vulnerability CVE-2022-48770
Published: 2024-06-20

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

bpf: Guard against accessing NULL pt_regs in bpf_get_task_stack()

task_pt_regs() can return NULL on powerpc for kernel threads. This is
then used in __bpf_get_stack() to check for user mode, resulting in a
kernel oops. Guard against this by checking return value of
task_pt_regs() before trying to obtain the call chain.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff6bdc205fd0a83bd365405d4e31fb5905826996
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bcd484587b3b3092e448d27dc369e347e1810c3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b82ef4985a6d05e80f604624332430351df7b79a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b992f01e66150fc5e90be4a96f5eb8e634c8249e
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