CVE-2025-68742 – bpf: Fix invalid prog->stats access when update_effective_progs fails

CVE ID : CVE-2025-68742

Published : Dec. 24, 2025, 1:16 p.m. | 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

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

bpf: Fix invalid prog->stats access when update_effective_progs fails

Syzkaller triggers an invalid memory access issue following fault
injection in update_effective_progs. The issue can be described as
follows:

__cgroup_bpf_detach
update_effective_progs
compute_effective_progs
bpf_prog_array_alloc items[index] = &dummy_bpf_prog.prog

—softirq start—
__do_softirq
…
__cgroup_bpf_run_filter_skb
__bpf_prog_run_save_cb
bpf_prog_run
stats = this_cpu_ptr(prog->stats)
/* invalid memory access */
flags = u64_stats_update_begin_irqsave(&stats->syncp)
—softirq end—

static_branch_dec(&cgroup_bpf_enabled_key[atype])

The reason is that fault injection caused update_effective_progs to fail
and then changed the original prog into dummy_bpf_prog.prog in
purge_effective_progs. Then a softirq came, and accessing the members of
dummy_bpf_prog.prog in the softirq triggers invalid mem access.

To fix it, skip updating stats when stats is NULL.

Severity: 0.0 | NA

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