Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.6.59 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: musb: Fix hardware lockup on first Rx endpoint request
There is a possibility that a request's callback could be invoked from
usb_ep_queue() (call trace below, supplemented with missing calls):
req->complete from usb_gadget_giveback_request
(drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:999)
usb_gadget_giveback_request from musb_g_giveback
(drivers/usb/musb/musb_gadget.c:147)
musb_g_giveback from rxstate
(drivers/usb/musb/musb_gadget.c:784)
rxstate from musb_ep_restart
(drivers/usb/musb/musb_gadget.c:1169)
musb_ep_restart from musb_ep_restart_resume_work
(drivers/usb/musb/musb_gadget.c:1176)
musb_ep_restart_resume_work from musb_queue_resume_work
(drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c:2279)
musb_queue_resume_work from musb_gadget_queue
(drivers/usb/musb/musb_gadget.c:1241)
musb_gadget_queue from usb_ep_queue
(drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:300)
According to the docstring of usb_ep_queue(), this should not happen:
"Note that @req's ->complete() callback must never be called from within
usb_ep_queue() as that can create deadlock situations."
In fact, a hardware lockup might occur in the following sequence:
1. The gadget is initialized using musb_gadget_enable().
2. Meanwhile, a packet arrives, and the RXPKTRDY flag is set, raising an
interrupt.
3. If IRQs are enabled, the interrupt is handled, but musb_g_rx() finds an
empty queue (next_request() returns NULL). The interrupt flag has
already been cleared by the glue layer handler, but the RXPKTRDY flag
remains set.
4. The first request is enqueued using usb_ep_queue(), leading to the call
of req->complete(), as shown in the call trace above.
5. If the callback enables IRQs and another packet is waiting, step (3)
repeats. The request queue is empty because usb_g_giveback() removes the
request before invoking the callback.
6. The endpoint remains locked up, as the interrupt triggered by hardware
setting the RXPKTRDY flag has been handled, but the flag itself remains
set.
For this scenario to occur, it is only necessary for IRQs to be enabled at
some point during the complete callback. This happens with the USB Ethernet
gadget, whose rx_complete() callback calls netif_rx(). If called in the
task context, netif_rx() disables the bottom halves (BHs). When the BHs are
re-enabled, IRQs are also enabled to allow soft IRQs to be processed. The
gadget itself is initialized at module load (or at boot if built-in), but
the first request is enqueued when the network interface is brought up,
triggering rx_complete() in the task context via ioctl(). If a packet
arrives while the interface is down, it can prevent the interface from
receiving any further packets from the USB host.
The situation is quite complicated with many parties involved. This
particular issue can be resolved in several possible ways:
1. Ensure that callbacks never enable IRQs. This would be difficult to
enforce, as discovering how netif_rx() interacts with interrupts was
already quite challenging and u_ether is not the only function driver.
Similar "bugs" could be hidden in other drivers as well.
2. Disable MUSB interrupts in musb_g_giveback() before calling the callback
and re-enable them afterwars (by calling musb_{dis,en}able_interrupts(),
for example). This would ensure that MUSB interrupts are not handled
during the callback, even if IRQs are enabled. In fact, it would allow
IRQs to be enabled when releasing the lock. However, this feels like an
inelegant hack.
3. Modify the interrupt handler to clear the RXPKTRDY flag if the request
queue is empty. While this approach also feels like a hack, it wastes
CPU time by attempting to handle incoming packets when the software is
not ready to process them.
4. Flush the Rx FIFO instead of calling rxstate() in musb_ep_restart().
This ensures that the hardware can receive packets when there is at
least one request in the queue. Once I
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CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sunrpc: clear XPRT_SOCK_UPD_TIMEOUT when reset transport
Since transport->sock has been set to NULL during reset transport,
XPRT_SOCK_UPD_TIMEOUT also needs to be cleared. Otherwise, the
xs_tcp_set_socket_timeouts() may be triggered in xs_tcp_send_request()
to dereference the transport->sock that has been set to NULL.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vc4: hdmi: Avoid hang with debug registers when suspended
Trying to read /sys/kernel/debug/dri/1/hdmi1_regs
when the hdmi is disconnected results in a fatal system hang.
This is due to the pm suspend code disabling the dvp clock.
That is just a gate of the 108MHz clock in DVP_HT_RPI_MISC_CONFIG,
which results in accesses hanging AXI bus.
Protect against this.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
octeontx2-pf: handle otx2_mbox_get_rsp errors in otx2_common.c
Add error pointer check after calling otx2_mbox_get_rsp().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: bcm - add error check in the ahash_hmac_init function
The ahash_init functions may return fails. The ahash_hmac_init should
not return ok when ahash_init returns error. For an example, ahash_init
will return -ENOMEM when allocation memory is error.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/fadump: Move fadump_cma_init to setup_arch() after initmem_init()
During early init CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES can be PAGE_SIZE,
since pageblock_order is still zero and it gets initialized
later during initmem_init() e.g.
setup_arch() -> initmem_init() -> sparse_init() -> set_pageblock_order()
One such use case where this causes issue is -
early_setup() -> early_init_devtree() -> fadump_reserve_mem() -> fadump_cma_init()
This causes CMA memory alignment check to be bypassed in
cma_init_reserved_mem(). Then later cma_activate_area() can hit
a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pfn & ((1 << order) - 1)) if the reserved memory
area was not pageblock_order aligned.
Fix it by moving the fadump_cma_init() after initmem_init(),
where other such cma reservations also gets called.
<stack trace>
==============
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x10010
flags: 0x13ffff800000000(node=1|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x7ffff) CMA
raw: 013ffff800000000 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pfn & ((1 << order) - 1))
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kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:778!
Call Trace:
__free_one_page+0x57c/0x7b0 (unreliable)
free_pcppages_bulk+0x1a8/0x2c8
free_unref_page_commit+0x3d4/0x4e4
free_unref_page+0x458/0x6d0
init_cma_reserved_pageblock+0x114/0x198
cma_init_reserved_areas+0x270/0x3e0
do_one_initcall+0x80/0x2f8
kernel_init_freeable+0x33c/0x530
kernel_init+0x34/0x26c
ret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/mm/fault: Fix kfence page fault reporting
copy_from_kernel_nofault() can be called when doing read of /proc/kcore.
/proc/kcore can have some unmapped kfence objects which when read via
copy_from_kernel_nofault() can cause page faults. Since *_nofault()
functions define their own fixup table for handling fault, use that
instead of asking kfence to handle such faults.
Hence we search the exception tables for the nip which generated the
fault. If there is an entry then we let the fixup table handler handle the
page fault by returning an error from within ___do_page_fault().
This can be easily triggered if someone tries to do dd from /proc/kcore.
eg. dd if=/proc/kcore of=/dev/null bs=1M
Some example false negatives:
===============================
BUG: KFENCE: invalid read in copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x9c/0x1a0
Invalid read at 0xc0000000fdff0000:
copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x9c/0x1a0
0xc00000000665f950
read_kcore_iter+0x57c/0xa04
proc_reg_read_iter+0xe4/0x16c
vfs_read+0x320/0x3ec
ksys_read+0x90/0x154
system_call_exception+0x120/0x310
system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x9c/0x1a0
Use-after-free read at 0xc0000000fe050000 (in kfence-#2):
copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x9c/0x1a0
0xc00000000665f950
read_kcore_iter+0x57c/0xa04
proc_reg_read_iter+0xe4/0x16c
vfs_read+0x320/0x3ec
ksys_read+0x90/0x154
system_call_exception+0x120/0x310
system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-cgroup: Fix UAF in blkcg_unpin_online()
blkcg_unpin_online() walks up the blkcg hierarchy putting the online pin. To
walk up, it uses blkcg_parent(blkcg) but it was calling that after
blkcg_destroy_blkgs(blkcg) which could free the blkcg, leading to the
following UAF:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in blkcg_unpin_online+0x15a/0x270
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881057678c0 by task kworker/9:1/117
CPU: 9 UID: 0 PID: 117 Comm: kworker/9:1 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1-work-00182-gb8f52214c61a-dirty #48
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
Workqueue: cgwb_release cgwb_release_workfn
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x27/0x80
print_report+0x151/0x710
kasan_report+0xc0/0x100
blkcg_unpin_online+0x15a/0x270
cgwb_release_workfn+0x194/0x480
process_scheduled_works+0x71b/0xe20
worker_thread+0x82a/0xbd0
kthread+0x242/0x2c0
ret_from_fork+0x33/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
...
Freed by task 1944:
kasan_save_track+0x2b/0x70
kasan_save_free_info+0x3c/0x50
__kasan_slab_free+0x33/0x50
kfree+0x10c/0x330
css_free_rwork_fn+0xe6/0xb30
process_scheduled_works+0x71b/0xe20
worker_thread+0x82a/0xbd0
kthread+0x242/0x2c0
ret_from_fork+0x33/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
Note that the UAF is not easy to trigger as the free path is indirected
behind a couple RCU grace periods and a work item execution. I could only
trigger it with artifical msleep() injected in blkcg_unpin_online().
Fix it by reading the parent pointer before destroying the blkcg's blkg's.
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-12-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix UAF via mismatching bpf_prog/attachment RCU flavors
Uprobes always use bpf_prog_run_array_uprobe() under tasks-trace-RCU
protection. But it is possible to attach a non-sleepable BPF program to a
uprobe, and non-sleepable BPF programs are freed via normal RCU (see
__bpf_prog_put_noref()). This leads to UAF of the bpf_prog because a normal
RCU grace period does not imply a tasks-trace-RCU grace period.
Fix it by explicitly waiting for a tasks-trace-RCU grace period after
removing the attachment of a bpf_prog to a perf_event.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
acpi: nfit: vmalloc-out-of-bounds Read in acpi_nfit_ctl
Fix an issue detected by syzbot with KASAN:
BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in cmd_to_func drivers/acpi/nfit/
core.c:416 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in acpi_nfit_ctl+0x20e8/0x24a0
drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c:459
The issue occurs in cmd_to_func when the call_pkg->nd_reserved2
array is accessed without verifying that call_pkg points to a buffer
that is appropriately sized as a struct nd_cmd_pkg. This can lead
to out-of-bounds access and undefined behavior if the buffer does not
have sufficient space.
To address this, a check was added in acpi_nfit_ctl() to ensure that
buf is not NULL and that buf_len is less than sizeof(*call_pkg)
before accessing it. This ensures safe access to the members of
call_pkg, including the nd_reserved2 array.
CVSS Score
6.0
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-27