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

ftrace: Fix possible use-after-free issue in ftrace_location()

KASAN reports a bug:

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ftrace_location+0x90/0x120
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff888141d40010 by task insmod/424
  CPU: 8 PID: 424 Comm: insmod Tainted: G        W          6.9.0-rc2+
  [...]
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0xa0
   print_report+0xcf/0x610
   kasan_report+0xb5/0xe0
   ftrace_location+0x90/0x120
   register_kprobe+0x14b/0xa40
   kprobe_init+0x2d/0xff0 [kprobe_example]
   do_one_initcall+0x8f/0x2d0
   do_init_module+0x13a/0x3c0
   load_module+0x3082/0x33d0
   init_module_from_file+0xd2/0x130
   __x64_sys_finit_module+0x306/0x440
   do_syscall_64+0x68/0x140
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x71/0x79

The root cause is that, in lookup_rec(), ftrace record of some address
is being searched in ftrace pages of some module, but those ftrace pages
at the same time is being freed in ftrace_release_mod() as the
corresponding module is being deleted:

           CPU1                       |      CPU2
  register_kprobes() {                | delete_module() {
    check_kprobe_address_safe() {     |
      arch_check_ftrace_location() {  |
        ftrace_location() {           |
          lookup_rec() // USE!        |   ftrace_release_mod() // Free!

To fix this issue:
  1. Hold rcu lock as accessing ftrace pages in ftrace_location_range();
  2. Use ftrace_location_range() instead of lookup_rec() in
     ftrace_location();
  3. Call synchronize_rcu() before freeing any ftrace pages both in
     ftrace_process_locs()/ftrace_release_mod()/ftrace_free_mem().

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31310e373f4c8c74e029d4326b283e757edabc0b [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66df065b3106964e667b37bf8f7e55ec69d0c1f6 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b4881da5b19f65709f5c18c1a4d8caa2e496461 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbff5f0bfb2416b8b55c105ddbcd4f885e98fada [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e60b613df8b6253def41215402f72986fee3fc8d [No types assigned]