Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.0 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/sti: avoid potential dereference of error pointers in sti_hqvdp_atomic_check
The return value of drm_atomic_get_crtc_state() needs to be
checked. To avoid use of error pointer 'crtc_state' in case
of the failure.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: fix nfs4_openowner leak when concurrent nfsd4_open occur
The action force umount(umount -f) will attempt to kill all rpc_task even
umount operation may ultimately fail if some files remain open.
Consequently, if an action attempts to open a file, it can potentially
send two rpc_task to nfs server.
NFS CLIENT
thread1 thread2
open("file")
...
nfs4_do_open
_nfs4_do_open
_nfs4_open_and_get_state
_nfs4_proc_open
nfs4_run_open_task
/* rpc_task1 */
rpc_run_task
rpc_wait_for_completion_task
umount -f
nfs_umount_begin
rpc_killall_tasks
rpc_signal_task
rpc_task1 been wakeup
and return -512
_nfs4_do_open // while loop
...
nfs4_run_open_task
/* rpc_task2 */
rpc_run_task
rpc_wait_for_completion_task
While processing an open request, nfsd will first attempt to find or
allocate an nfs4_openowner. If it finds an nfs4_openowner that is not
marked as NFS4_OO_CONFIRMED, this nfs4_openowner will released. Since
two rpc_task can attempt to open the same file simultaneously from the
client to server, and because two instances of nfsd can run
concurrently, this situation can lead to lots of memory leak.
Additionally, when we echo 0 to /proc/fs/nfsd/threads, warning will be
triggered.
NFS SERVER
nfsd1 nfsd2 echo 0 > /proc/fs/nfsd/threads
nfsd4_open
nfsd4_process_open1
find_or_alloc_open_stateowner
// alloc oo1, stateid1
nfsd4_open
nfsd4_process_open1
find_or_alloc_open_stateowner
// find oo1, without NFS4_OO_CONFIRMED
release_openowner
unhash_openowner_locked
list_del_init(&oo->oo_perclient)
// cannot find this oo
// from client, LEAK!!!
alloc_stateowner // alloc oo2
nfsd4_process_open2
init_open_stateid
// associate oo1
// with stateid1, stateid1 LEAK!!!
nfs4_get_vfs_file
// alloc nfsd_file1 and nfsd_file_mark1
// all LEAK!!!
nfsd4_process_open2
...
write_threads
...
nfsd_destroy_serv
nfsd_shutdown_net
nfs4_state_shutdown_net
nfs4_state_destroy_net
destroy_client
__destroy_client
// won't find oo1!!!
nfsd_shutdown_generic
nfsd_file_cache_shutdown
kmem_cache_destroy
for nfsd_file_slab
and nfsd_file_mark_slab
// bark since nfsd_file1
// and nfsd_file_mark1
// still alive
=======================================================================
BUG nfsd_file (Not tainted): Objects remaining in nfsd_file on
__kmem_cache_shutdown()
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Slab 0xffd4000004438a80 objects=34 used=1 fp=0xff11000110e2ad28
flags=0x17ffffc0000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 757 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6+ #19
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dum
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CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: netem: account for backlog updates from child qdisc
In general, 'qlen' of any classful qdisc should keep track of the
number of packets that the qdisc itself and all of its children holds.
In case of netem, 'qlen' only accounts for the packets in its internal
tfifo. When netem is used with a child qdisc, the child qdisc can use
'qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog' to inform its parent, netem, about created
or dropped SKBs. This function updates 'qlen' and the backlog statistics
of netem, but netem does not account for changes made by a child qdisc.
'qlen' then indicates the wrong number of packets in the tfifo.
If a child qdisc creates new SKBs during enqueue and informs its parent
about this, netem's 'qlen' value is increased. When netem dequeues the
newly created SKBs from the child, the 'qlen' in netem is not updated.
If 'qlen' reaches the configured sch->limit, the enqueue function stops
working, even though the tfifo is not full.
Reproduce the bug:
Ensure that the sender machine has GSO enabled. Configure netem as root
qdisc and tbf as its child on the outgoing interface of the machine
as follows:
$ tc qdisc add dev <oif> root handle 1: netem delay 100ms limit 100
$ tc qdisc add dev <oif> parent 1:0 tbf rate 50Mbit burst 1542 latency 50ms
Send bulk TCP traffic out via this interface, e.g., by running an iPerf3
client on the machine. Check the qdisc statistics:
$ tc -s qdisc show dev <oif>
Statistics after 10s of iPerf3 TCP test before the fix (note that
netem's backlog > limit, netem stopped accepting packets):
qdisc netem 1: root refcnt 2 limit 1000 delay 100ms
Sent 2767766 bytes 1848 pkt (dropped 652, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
backlog 4294528236b 1155p requeues 0
qdisc tbf 10: parent 1:1 rate 50Mbit burst 1537b lat 50ms
Sent 2767766 bytes 1848 pkt (dropped 327, overlimits 7601 requeues 0)
backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
Statistics after the fix:
qdisc netem 1: root refcnt 2 limit 1000 delay 100ms
Sent 37766372 bytes 24974 pkt (dropped 9, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
qdisc tbf 10: parent 1:1 rate 50Mbit burst 1537b lat 50ms
Sent 37766372 bytes 24974 pkt (dropped 327, overlimits 96017 requeues 0)
backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
tbf segments the GSO SKBs (tbf_segment) and updates the netem's 'qlen'.
The interface fully stops transferring packets and "locks". In this case,
the child qdisc and tfifo are empty, but 'qlen' indicates the tfifo is at
its limit and no more packets are accepted.
This patch adds a counter for the entries in the tfifo. Netem's 'qlen' is
only decreased when a packet is returned by its dequeue function, and not
during enqueuing into the child qdisc. External updates to 'qlen' are thus
accounted for and only the behavior of the backlog statistics changes. As
in other qdiscs, 'qlen' then keeps track of how many packets are held in
netem and all of its children. As before, sch->limit remains as the
maximum number of packets in the tfifo. The same applies to netem's
backlog statistics.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme-pci: fix freeing of the HMB descriptor table
The HMB descriptor table is sized to the maximum number of descriptors
that could be used for a given device, but __nvme_alloc_host_mem could
break out of the loop earlier on memory allocation failure and end up
using less descriptors than planned for, which leads to an incorrect
size passed to dma_free_coherent.
In practice this was not showing up because the number of descriptors
tends to be low and the dma coherent allocator always allocates and
frees at least a page.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: sh7760fb: Fix a possible memory leak in sh7760fb_alloc_mem()
When information such as info->screen_base is not ready, calling
sh7760fb_free_mem() does not release memory correctly. Call
dma_free_coherent() instead.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qedi: Fix a possible memory leak in qedi_alloc_and_init_sb()
Hook "qedi_ops->common->sb_init = qed_sb_init" does not release the DMA
memory sb_virt when it fails. Add dma_free_coherent() to free it. This
is the same way as qedr_alloc_mem_sb() and qede_alloc_mem_sb().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qedf: Fix a possible memory leak in qedf_alloc_and_init_sb()
Hook "qed_ops->common->sb_init = qed_sb_init" does not release the DMA
memory sb_virt when it fails. Add dma_free_coherent() to free it. This
is the same way as qedr_alloc_mem_sb() and qede_alloc_mem_sb().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: caam - Fix the pointer passed to caam_qi_shutdown()
The type of the last parameter given to devm_add_action_or_reset() is
"struct caam_drv_private *", but in caam_qi_shutdown(), it is casted to
"struct device *".
Pass the correct parameter to devm_add_action_or_reset() so that the
resources are released as expected.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rtc: check if __rtc_read_time was successful in rtc_timer_do_work()
If the __rtc_read_time call fails,, the struct rtc_time tm; may contain
uninitialized data, or an illegal date/time read from the RTC hardware.
When calling rtc_tm_to_ktime later, the result may be a very large value
(possibly KTIME_MAX). If there are periodic timers in rtc->timerqueue,
they will continually expire, may causing kernel softlockup.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI: Fix reset_method_store() memory leak
In reset_method_store(), a string is allocated via kstrndup() and assigned
to the local "options". options is then used in with strsep() to find
spaces:
while ((name = strsep(&options, " ")) != NULL) {
If there are no remaining spaces, then options is set to NULL by strsep(),
so the subsequent kfree(options) doesn't free the memory allocated via
kstrndup().
Fix by using a separate tmp_options to iterate with strsep() so options is
preserved.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-29