Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.6.63 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hrtimers: Handle CPU state correctly on hotplug
Consider a scenario where a CPU transitions from CPUHP_ONLINE to halfway
through a CPU hotunplug down to CPUHP_HRTIMERS_PREPARE, and then back to
CPUHP_ONLINE:
Since hrtimers_prepare_cpu() does not run, cpu_base.hres_active remains set
to 1 throughout. However, during a CPU unplug operation, the tick and the
clockevents are shut down at CPUHP_AP_TICK_DYING. On return to the online
state, for instance CFS incorrectly assumes that the hrtick is already
active, and the chance of the clockevent device to transition to oneshot
mode is also lost forever for the CPU, unless it goes back to a lower state
than CPUHP_HRTIMERS_PREPARE once.
This round-trip reveals another issue; cpu_base.online is not set to 1
after the transition, which appears as a WARN_ON_ONCE in enqueue_hrtimer().
Aside of that, the bulk of the per CPU state is not reset either, which
means there are dangling pointers in the worst case.
Address this by adding a corresponding startup() callback, which resets the
stale per CPU state and sets the online flag.
[ tglx: Make the new callback unconditionally available, remove the online
modification in the prepare() callback and clear the remaining
state in the starting callback instead of the prepare callback ]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-12
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfio/platform: check the bounds of read/write syscalls
count and offset are passed from user space and not checked, only
offset is capped to 40 bits, which can be used to read/write out of
bounds of the device.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
USB: serial: quatech2: fix null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb()
This patch addresses a null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb() due to
an incorrect bounds check in the following:
if (newport > serial->num_ports) {
dev_err(&port->dev,
"%s - port change to invalid port: %i\n",
__func__, newport);
break;
}
The condition doesn't account for the valid range of the serial->port
buffer, which is from 0 to serial->num_ports - 1. When newport is equal
to serial->num_ports, the assignment of "port" in the
following code is out-of-bounds and NULL:
serial_priv->current_port = newport;
port = serial->port[serial_priv->current_port];
The fix checks if newport is greater than or equal to serial->num_ports
indicating it is out-of-bounds.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: storvsc: Ratelimit warning logs to prevent VM denial of service
If there's a persistent error in the hypervisor, the SCSI warning for
failed I/O can flood the kernel log and max out CPU utilization,
preventing troubleshooting from the VM side. Ratelimit the warning so
it doesn't DoS the VM.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cachestat: fix page cache statistics permission checking
When the 'cachestat()' system call was added in commit cf264e1329fb
("cachestat: implement cachestat syscall"), it was meant to be a much
more convenient (and performant) version of mincore() that didn't need
mapping things into the user virtual address space in order to work.
But it ended up missing the "check for writability or ownership" fix for
mincore(), done in commit 134fca9063ad ("mm/mincore.c: make mincore()
more conservative").
This just adds equivalent logic to 'cachestat()', modified for the file
context (rather than vma).
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: sched: fix ets qdisc OOB Indexing
Haowei Yan <g1042620637@gmail.com> found that ets_class_from_arg() can
index an Out-Of-Bound class in ets_class_from_arg() when passed clid of
0. The overflow may cause local privilege escalation.
[ 18.852298] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 18.853271] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in net/sched/sch_ets.c:93:20
[ 18.853743] index 18446744073709551615 is out of range for type 'ets_class [16]'
[ 18.854254] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1275 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.12.6-dirty #17
[ 18.854821] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
[ 18.856532] Call Trace:
[ 18.857441] <TASK>
[ 18.858227] dump_stack_lvl+0xc2/0xf0
[ 18.859607] dump_stack+0x10/0x20
[ 18.860908] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0xa7/0xf0
[ 18.864022] ets_class_change+0x3d6/0x3f0
[ 18.864322] tc_ctl_tclass+0x251/0x910
[ 18.864587] ? lock_acquire+0x5e/0x140
[ 18.865113] ? __mutex_lock+0x9c/0xe70
[ 18.866009] ? __mutex_lock+0xa34/0xe70
[ 18.866401] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x170/0x6f0
[ 18.866806] ? __lock_acquire+0x578/0xc10
[ 18.867184] ? __pfx_rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
[ 18.867503] netlink_rcv_skb+0x59/0x110
[ 18.867776] rtnetlink_rcv+0x15/0x30
[ 18.868159] netlink_unicast+0x1c3/0x2b0
[ 18.868440] netlink_sendmsg+0x239/0x4b0
[ 18.868721] ____sys_sendmsg+0x3e2/0x410
[ 18.869012] ___sys_sendmsg+0x88/0xe0
[ 18.869276] ? rseq_ip_fixup+0x198/0x260
[ 18.869563] ? rseq_update_cpu_node_id+0x10a/0x190
[ 18.869900] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0x5a/0xd0
[ 18.870196] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0xcc/0x220
[ 18.870547] ? do_syscall_64+0x93/0x150
[ 18.870821] ? __memcg_slab_free_hook+0x69/0x290
[ 18.871157] __sys_sendmsg+0x69/0xd0
[ 18.871416] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1d/0x30
[ 18.871699] x64_sys_call+0x9e2/0x2670
[ 18.871979] do_syscall_64+0x87/0x150
[ 18.873280] ? do_syscall_64+0x93/0x150
[ 18.874742] ? lock_release+0x7b/0x160
[ 18.876157] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x5ce/0x8f0
[ 18.877833] ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0xc2/0x210
[ 18.879608] ? irqentry_exit+0x77/0xb0
[ 18.879808] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70
[ 18.880023] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70
[ 18.880223] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70
[ 18.880426] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[ 18.880683] RIP: 0033:0x44a957
[ 18.880851] Code: ff ff e8 fc 00 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 89 54 24 1c 48 8974 24 10
[ 18.881766] RSP: 002b:00007ffcdd00fad8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
[ 18.882149] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffcdd010db8 RCX: 000000000044a957
[ 18.882507] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffcdd00fb70 RDI: 0000000000000003
[ 18.885037] RBP: 00007ffcdd010bc0 R08: 000000000703c770 R09: 000000000703c7c0
[ 18.887203] R10: 0000000000000080 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
[ 18.888026] R13: 00007ffcdd010da8 R14: 00000000004ca7d0 R15: 0000000000000001
[ 18.888395] </TASK>
[ 18.888610] ---[ end trace ]---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: zswap: properly synchronize freeing resources during CPU hotunplug
In zswap_compress() and zswap_decompress(), the per-CPU acomp_ctx of the
current CPU at the beginning of the operation is retrieved and used
throughout. However, since neither preemption nor migration are disabled,
it is possible that the operation continues on a different CPU.
If the original CPU is hotunplugged while the acomp_ctx is still in use,
we run into a UAF bug as some of the resources attached to the acomp_ctx
are freed during hotunplug in zswap_cpu_comp_dead() (i.e.
acomp_ctx.buffer, acomp_ctx.req, or acomp_ctx.acomp).
The problem was introduced in commit 1ec3b5fe6eec ("mm/zswap: move to use
crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration") when the switch to the
crypto_acomp API was made. Prior to that, the per-CPU crypto_comp was
retrieved using get_cpu_ptr() which disables preemption and makes sure the
CPU cannot go away from under us. Preemption cannot be disabled with the
crypto_acomp API as a sleepable context is needed.
Use the acomp_ctx.mutex to synchronize CPU hotplug callbacks allocating
and freeing resources with compression/decompression paths. Make sure
that acomp_ctx.req is NULL when the resources are freed. In the
compression/decompression paths, check if acomp_ctx.req is NULL after
acquiring the mutex (meaning the CPU was offlined) and retry on the new
CPU.
The initialization of acomp_ctx.mutex is moved from the CPU hotplug
callback to the pool initialization where it belongs (where the mutex is
allocated). In addition to adding clarity, this makes sure that CPU
hotplug cannot reinitialize a mutex that is already locked by
compression/decompression.
Previously a fix was attempted by holding cpus_read_lock() [1]. This
would have caused a potential deadlock as it is possible for code already
holding the lock to fall into reclaim and enter zswap (causing a
deadlock). A fix was also attempted using SRCU for synchronization, but
Johannes pointed out that synchronize_srcu() cannot be used in CPU hotplug
notifiers [2].
Alternative fixes that were considered/attempted and could have worked:
- Refcounting the per-CPU acomp_ctx. This involves complexity in
handling the race between the refcount dropping to zero in
zswap_[de]compress() and the refcount being re-initialized when the
CPU is onlined.
- Disabling migration before getting the per-CPU acomp_ctx [3], but
that's discouraged and is a much bigger hammer than needed, and could
result in subtle performance issues.
[1]https://lkml.kernel.org/20241219212437.2714151-1-yosryahmed@google.com/
[2]https://lkml.kernel.org/20250107074724.1756696-2-yosryahmed@google.com/
[3]https://lkml.kernel.org/20250107222236.2715883-2-yosryahmed@google.com/
[yosryahmed@google.com: remove comment]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Initialize denominator defaults to 1
[WHAT & HOW]
Variables, used as denominators and maybe not assigned to other values,
should be initialized to non-zero to avoid DIVIDE_BY_ZERO, as reported
by Coverity.
(cherry picked from commit e2c4c6c10542ccfe4a0830bb6c9fd5b177b7bbb7)
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gpio: xilinx: Convert gpio_lock to raw spinlock
irq_chip functions may be called in raw spinlock context. Therefore, we
must also use a raw spinlock for our own internal locking.
This fixes the following lockdep splat:
[ 5.349336] =============================
[ 5.353349] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
[ 5.357361] 6.13.0-rc5+ #69 Tainted: G W
[ 5.363031] -----------------------------
[ 5.367045] kworker/u17:1/44 is trying to lock:
[ 5.371587] ffffff88018b02c0 (&chip->gpio_lock){....}-{3:3}, at: xgpio_irq_unmask (drivers/gpio/gpio-xilinx.c:433 (discriminator 8))
[ 5.380079] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 5.385138] context-{5:5}
[ 5.387762] 5 locks held by kworker/u17:1/44:
[ 5.392123] #0: ffffff8800014958 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3204)
[ 5.402260] #1: ffffffc082fcbdd8 (deferred_probe_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3205)
[ 5.411528] #2: ffffff880172c900 (&dev->mutex){....}-{4:4}, at: __device_attach (drivers/base/dd.c:1006)
[ 5.419929] #3: ffffff88039c8268 (request_class#2){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: __setup_irq (kernel/irq/internals.h:156 kernel/irq/manage.c:1596)
[ 5.428331] #4: ffffff88039c80c8 (lock_class#2){....}-{2:2}, at: __setup_irq (kernel/irq/manage.c:1614)
[ 5.436472] stack backtrace:
[ 5.439359] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 44 Comm: kworker/u17:1 Tainted: G W 6.13.0-rc5+ #69
[ 5.448690] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[ 5.451656] Hardware name: xlnx,zynqmp (DT)
[ 5.455845] Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func
[ 5.461699] Call trace:
[ 5.464147] show_stack+0x18/0x24 C
[ 5.467821] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:123)
[ 5.471501] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:130)
[ 5.474824] __lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4828 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4898 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5176)
[ 5.478758] lock_acquire (arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h:40 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:467 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5851 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5814)
[ 5.482429] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave (include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:111 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162)
[ 5.486797] xgpio_irq_unmask (drivers/gpio/gpio-xilinx.c:433 (discriminator 8))
[ 5.490737] irq_enable (kernel/irq/internals.h:236 kernel/irq/chip.c:170 kernel/irq/chip.c:439 kernel/irq/chip.c:432 kernel/irq/chip.c:345)
[ 5.494060] __irq_startup (kernel/irq/internals.h:241 kernel/irq/chip.c:180 kernel/irq/chip.c:250)
[ 5.497645] irq_startup (kernel/irq/chip.c:270)
[ 5.501143] __setup_irq (kernel/irq/manage.c:1807)
[ 5.504728] request_threaded_irq (kernel/irq/manage.c:2208)
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Don't enable interrupts in its_irq_set_vcpu_affinity()
The following call-chain leads to enabling interrupts in a nested interrupt
disabled section:
irq_set_vcpu_affinity()
irq_get_desc_lock()
raw_spin_lock_irqsave() <--- Disable interrupts
its_irq_set_vcpu_affinity()
guard(raw_spinlock_irq) <--- Enables interrupts when leaving the guard()
irq_put_desc_unlock() <--- Warns because interrupts are enabled
This was broken in commit b97e8a2f7130, which replaced the original
raw_spin_[un]lock() pair with guard(raw_spinlock_irq).
Fix the issue by using guard(raw_spinlock).
[ tglx: Massaged change log ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-09