Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.14.307 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ila: serialize calls to nf_register_net_hooks()
syzbot found a race in ila_add_mapping() [1]
commit 031ae72825ce ("ila: call nf_unregister_net_hooks() sooner")
attempted to fix a similar issue.
Looking at the syzbot repro, we have concurrent ILA_CMD_ADD commands.
Add a mutex to make sure at most one thread is calling nf_register_net_hooks().
[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rht_key_hashfn include/linux/rhashtable.h:159 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __rhashtable_lookup.constprop.0+0x426/0x550 include/linux/rhashtable.h:604
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888028f40008 by task dhcpcd/5501
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5501 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted 6.13.0-rc4-syzkaller-00054-gd6ef8b40d075 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xc3/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:489
kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:602
rht_key_hashfn include/linux/rhashtable.h:159 [inline]
__rhashtable_lookup.constprop.0+0x426/0x550 include/linux/rhashtable.h:604
rhashtable_lookup include/linux/rhashtable.h:646 [inline]
rhashtable_lookup_fast include/linux/rhashtable.h:672 [inline]
ila_lookup_wildcards net/ipv6/ila/ila_xlat.c:127 [inline]
ila_xlat_addr net/ipv6/ila/ila_xlat.c:652 [inline]
ila_nf_input+0x1ee/0x620 net/ipv6/ila/ila_xlat.c:185
nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:154 [inline]
nf_hook_slow+0xbb/0x200 net/netfilter/core.c:626
nf_hook.constprop.0+0x42e/0x750 include/linux/netfilter.h:269
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:312 [inline]
ipv6_rcv+0xa4/0x680 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:309
__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x12e/0x1e0 net/core/dev.c:5672
__netif_receive_skb+0x1d/0x160 net/core/dev.c:5785
process_backlog+0x443/0x15f0 net/core/dev.c:6117
__napi_poll.constprop.0+0xb7/0x550 net/core/dev.c:6883
napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6952 [inline]
net_rx_action+0xa94/0x1010 net/core/dev.c:7074
handle_softirqs+0x213/0x8f0 kernel/softirq.c:561
__do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:595 [inline]
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:435 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0x109/0x170 kernel/softirq.c:662
irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:678
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa4/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: restrict SO_REUSEPORT to inet sockets
After blamed commit, crypto sockets could accidentally be destroyed
from RCU call back, as spotted by zyzbot [1].
Trying to acquire a mutex in RCU callback is not allowed.
Restrict SO_REUSEPORT socket option to inet sockets.
v1 of this patch supported TCP, UDP and SCTP sockets,
but fcnal-test.sh test needed RAW and ICMP support.
[1]
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:562
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 24, name: ksoftirqd/1
preempt_count: 100, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
1 lock held by ksoftirqd/1/24:
#0: ffffffff8e937ba0 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:337 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8e937ba0 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2561 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8e937ba0 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_core+0xa37/0x17a0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2823
Preemption disabled at:
[<ffffffff8161c8c8>] softirq_handle_begin kernel/softirq.c:402 [inline]
[<ffffffff8161c8c8>] handle_softirqs+0x128/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:537
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 24 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00174-ga024e377efed #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
__might_resched+0x5d4/0x780 kernel/sched/core.c:8758
__mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:562 [inline]
__mutex_lock+0x131/0xee0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:735
crypto_put_default_null_skcipher+0x18/0x70 crypto/crypto_null.c:179
aead_release+0x3d/0x50 crypto/algif_aead.c:489
alg_do_release crypto/af_alg.c:118 [inline]
alg_sock_destruct+0x86/0xc0 crypto/af_alg.c:502
__sk_destruct+0x58/0x5f0 net/core/sock.c:2260
rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2567 [inline]
rcu_core+0xaaa/0x17a0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2823
handle_softirqs+0x2d4/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:561
run_ksoftirqd+0xca/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:950
smpboot_thread_fn+0x544/0xa30 kernel/smpboot.c:164
kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
</TASK>
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm: adv7511: Fix use-after-free in adv7533_attach_dsi()
The host_node pointer was assigned and freed in adv7533_parse_dt(), and
later, adv7533_attach_dsi() uses the same. Fix this use-after-free issue
by dropping of_node_put() in adv7533_parse_dt() and calling of_node_put()
in error path of probe() and also in the remove().
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
workqueue: Do not warn when cancelling WQ_MEM_RECLAIM work from !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM worker
After commit
746ae46c1113 ("drm/sched: Mark scheduler work queues with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM")
amdgpu started seeing the following warning:
[ ] workqueue: WQ_MEM_RECLAIM sdma0:drm_sched_run_job_work [gpu_sched] is flushing !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM events:amdgpu_device_delay_enable_gfx_off [amdgpu]
...
[ ] Workqueue: sdma0 drm_sched_run_job_work [gpu_sched]
...
[ ] Call Trace:
[ ] <TASK>
...
[ ] ? check_flush_dependency+0xf5/0x110
...
[ ] cancel_delayed_work_sync+0x6e/0x80
[ ] amdgpu_gfx_off_ctrl+0xab/0x140 [amdgpu]
[ ] amdgpu_ring_alloc+0x40/0x50 [amdgpu]
[ ] amdgpu_ib_schedule+0xf4/0x810 [amdgpu]
[ ] ? drm_sched_run_job_work+0x22c/0x430 [gpu_sched]
[ ] amdgpu_job_run+0xaa/0x1f0 [amdgpu]
[ ] drm_sched_run_job_work+0x257/0x430 [gpu_sched]
[ ] process_one_work+0x217/0x720
...
[ ] </TASK>
The intent of the verifcation done in check_flush_depedency is to ensure
forward progress during memory reclaim, by flagging cases when either a
memory reclaim process, or a memory reclaim work item is flushed from a
context not marked as memory reclaim safe.
This is correct when flushing, but when called from the
cancel(_delayed)_work_sync() paths it is a false positive because work is
either already running, or will not be running at all. Therefore
cancelling it is safe and we can relax the warning criteria by letting the
helper know of the calling context.
References: 746ae46c1113 ("drm/sched: Mark scheduler work queues with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM")
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pinctrl: mcp23s08: Fix sleeping in atomic context due to regmap locking
If a device uses MCP23xxx IO expander to receive IRQs, the following
bug can happen:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
at kernel/locking/mutex.c:283
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, ...
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
...
Call Trace:
...
__might_resched+0x104/0x10e
__might_sleep+0x3e/0x62
mutex_lock+0x20/0x4c
regmap_lock_mutex+0x10/0x18
regmap_update_bits_base+0x2c/0x66
mcp23s08_irq_set_type+0x1ae/0x1d6
__irq_set_trigger+0x56/0x172
__setup_irq+0x1e6/0x646
request_threaded_irq+0xb6/0x160
...
We observed the problem while experimenting with a touchscreen driver which
used MCP23017 IO expander (I2C).
The regmap in the pinctrl-mcp23s08 driver uses a mutex for protection from
concurrent accesses, which is the default for regmaps without .fast_io,
.disable_locking, etc.
mcp23s08_irq_set_type() calls regmap_update_bits_base(), and the latter
locks the mutex.
However, __setup_irq() locks desc->lock spinlock before calling these
functions. As a result, the system tries to lock the mutex whole holding
the spinlock.
It seems, the internal regmap locks are not needed in this driver at all.
mcp->lock seems to protect the regmap from concurrent accesses already,
except, probably, in mcp_pinconf_get/set.
mcp23s08_irq_set_type() and mcp23s08_irq_mask/unmask() are called under
chip_bus_lock(), which calls mcp23s08_irq_bus_lock(). The latter takes
mcp->lock and enables regmap caching, so that the potentially slow I2C
accesses are deferred until chip_bus_unlock().
The accesses to the regmap from mcp23s08_probe_one() do not need additional
locking.
In all remaining places where the regmap is accessed, except
mcp_pinconf_get/set(), the driver already takes mcp->lock.
This patch adds locking in mcp_pinconf_get/set() and disables internal
locking in the regmap config. Among other things, it fixes the sleeping
in atomic context described above.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/uverbs: Prevent integer overflow issue
In the expression "cmd.wqe_size * cmd.wr_count", both variables are u32
values that come from the user so the multiplication can lead to integer
wrapping. Then we pass the result to uverbs_request_next_ptr() which also
could potentially wrap. The "cmd.sge_count * sizeof(struct ib_uverbs_sge)"
multiplication can also overflow on 32bit systems although it's fine on
64bit systems.
This patch does two things. First, I've re-arranged the condition in
uverbs_request_next_ptr() so that the use controlled variable "len" is on
one side of the comparison by itself without any math. Then I've modified
all the callers to use size_mul() for the multiplications.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix slab-use-after-free due to dangling pointer dqi_priv
When mounting ocfs2 and then remounting it as read-only, a
slab-use-after-free occurs after the user uses a syscall to
quota_getnextquota. Specifically, sb_dqinfo(sb, type)->dqi_priv is the
dangling pointer.
During the remounting process, the pointer dqi_priv is freed but is never
set as null leaving it to be accessed. Additionally, the read-only option
for remounting sets the DQUOT_SUSPENDED flag instead of setting the
DQUOT_USAGE_ENABLED flags. Moreover, later in the process of getting the
next quota, the function ocfs2_get_next_id is called and only checks the
quota usage flags and not the quota suspended flags.
To fix this, I set dqi_priv to null when it is freed after remounting with
read-only and put a check for DQUOT_SUSPENDED in ocfs2_get_next_id.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-01-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: seq: oss: Fix races at processing SysEx messages
OSS sequencer handles the SysEx messages split in 6 bytes packets, and
ALSA sequencer OSS layer tries to combine those. It stores the data
in the internal buffer and this access is racy as of now, which may
lead to the out-of-bounds access.
As a temporary band-aid fix, introduce a mutex for serializing the
process of the SysEx message packets.
CVSS Score
6.3
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: hugetlb: independent PMD page table shared count
The folio refcount may be increased unexpectly through try_get_folio() by
caller such as split_huge_pages. In huge_pmd_unshare(), we use refcount
to check whether a pmd page table is shared. The check is incorrect if
the refcount is increased by the above caller, and this can cause the page
table leaked:
BUG: Bad page state in process sh pfn:109324
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x66 pfn:0x109324
flags: 0x17ffff800000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0xfffff)
page_type: f2(table)
raw: 017ffff800000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000066 0000000000000000 00000000f2000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
...
CPU: 31 UID: 0 PID: 7515 Comm: sh Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B 6.13.0-rc2master+ #7
Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
Call trace:
show_stack+0x20/0x38 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0x80/0xf8
dump_stack+0x18/0x28
bad_page+0x8c/0x130
free_page_is_bad_report+0xa4/0xb0
free_unref_page+0x3cc/0x620
__folio_put+0xf4/0x158
split_huge_pages_all+0x1e0/0x3e8
split_huge_pages_write+0x25c/0x2d8
full_proxy_write+0x64/0xd8
vfs_write+0xcc/0x280
ksys_write+0x70/0x110
__arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38
invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
el0_svc+0x34/0x128
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc8/0xd0
el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198
The issue may be triggered by damon, offline_page, page_idle, etc, which
will increase the refcount of page table.
1. The page table itself will be discarded after reporting the
"nonzero mapcount".
2. The HugeTLB page mapped by the page table miss freeing since we
treat the page table as shared and a shared page table will not be
unmapped.
Fix it by introducing independent PMD page table shared count. As
described by comment, pt_index/pt_mm/pt_frag_refcount are used for s390
gmap, x86 pgds and powerpc, pt_share_count is used for x86/arm64/riscv
pmds, so we can reuse the field as pt_share_count.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-01-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: vmscan: account for free pages to prevent infinite Loop in throttle_direct_reclaim()
The task sometimes continues looping in throttle_direct_reclaim() because
allow_direct_reclaim(pgdat) keeps returning false.
#0 [ffff80002cb6f8d0] __switch_to at ffff8000080095ac
#1 [ffff80002cb6f900] __schedule at ffff800008abbd1c
#2 [ffff80002cb6f990] schedule at ffff800008abc50c
#3 [ffff80002cb6f9b0] throttle_direct_reclaim at ffff800008273550
#4 [ffff80002cb6fa20] try_to_free_pages at ffff800008277b68
#5 [ffff80002cb6fae0] __alloc_pages_nodemask at ffff8000082c4660
#6 [ffff80002cb6fc50] alloc_pages_vma at ffff8000082e4a98
#7 [ffff80002cb6fca0] do_anonymous_page at ffff80000829f5a8
#8 [ffff80002cb6fce0] __handle_mm_fault at ffff8000082a5974
#9 [ffff80002cb6fd90] handle_mm_fault at ffff8000082a5bd4
At this point, the pgdat contains the following two zones:
NODE: 4 ZONE: 0 ADDR: ffff00817fffe540 NAME: "DMA32"
SIZE: 20480 MIN/LOW/HIGH: 11/28/45
VM_STAT:
NR_FREE_PAGES: 359
NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_ANON: 18813
NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_ANON: 0
NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_FILE: 50
NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_FILE: 0
NR_ZONE_UNEVICTABLE: 0
NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING: 0
NR_MLOCK: 0
NR_BOUNCE: 0
NR_ZSPAGES: 0
NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES: 0
NODE: 4 ZONE: 1 ADDR: ffff00817fffec00 NAME: "Normal"
SIZE: 8454144 PRESENT: 98304 MIN/LOW/HIGH: 68/166/264
VM_STAT:
NR_FREE_PAGES: 146
NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_ANON: 94668
NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_ANON: 3
NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_FILE: 735
NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_FILE: 78
NR_ZONE_UNEVICTABLE: 0
NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING: 0
NR_MLOCK: 0
NR_BOUNCE: 0
NR_ZSPAGES: 0
NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES: 0
In allow_direct_reclaim(), while processing ZONE_DMA32, the sum of
inactive/active file-backed pages calculated in zone_reclaimable_pages()
based on the result of zone_page_state_snapshot() is zero.
Additionally, since this system lacks swap, the calculation of inactive/
active anonymous pages is skipped.
crash> p nr_swap_pages
nr_swap_pages = $1937 = {
counter = 0
}
As a result, ZONE_DMA32 is deemed unreclaimable and skipped, moving on to
the processing of the next zone, ZONE_NORMAL, despite ZONE_DMA32 having
free pages significantly exceeding the high watermark.
The problem is that the pgdat->kswapd_failures hasn't been incremented.
crash> px ((struct pglist_data *) 0xffff00817fffe540)->kswapd_failures
$1935 = 0x0
This is because the node deemed balanced. The node balancing logic in
balance_pgdat() evaluates all zones collectively. If one or more zones
(e.g., ZONE_DMA32) have enough free pages to meet their watermarks, the
entire node is deemed balanced. This causes balance_pgdat() to exit early
before incrementing the kswapd_failures, as it considers the overall
memory state acceptable, even though some zones (like ZONE_NORMAL) remain
under significant pressure.
The patch ensures that zone_reclaimable_pages() includes free pages
(NR_FREE_PAGES) in its calculation when no other reclaimable pages are
available (e.g., file-backed or anonymous pages). This change prevents
zones like ZONE_DMA32, which have sufficient free pages, from being
mistakenly deemed unreclaimable. By doing so, the patch ensures proper
node balancing, avoids masking pressure on other zones like ZONE_NORMAL,
and prevents infinite loops in throttle_direct_reclaim() caused by
allow_direct_reclaim(pgdat) repeatedly returning false.
The kernel hangs due to a task stuck in throttle_direct_reclaim(), caused
by a node being incorrectly deemed balanced despite pressure in certain
zones, such as ZONE_NORMAL. This issue arises from
zone_reclaimable_pages
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-15