Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.52 Security Vulnerabilities
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:
media: dvb-frontends: dib3000mb: fix uninit-value in dib3000_write_reg
Syzbot reports [1] an uninitialized value issue found by KMSAN in
dib3000_read_reg().
Local u8 rb[2] is used in i2c_transfer() as a read buffer; in case
that call fails, the buffer may end up with some undefined values.
Since no elaborate error handling is expected in dib3000_write_reg(),
simply zero out rb buffer to mitigate the problem.
[1] Syzkaller report
dvb-usb: bulk message failed: -22 (6/0)
=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in dib3000mb_attach+0x2d8/0x3c0 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib3000mb.c:758
dib3000mb_attach+0x2d8/0x3c0 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib3000mb.c:758
dibusb_dib3000mb_frontend_attach+0x155/0x2f0 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-mb.c:31
dvb_usb_adapter_frontend_init+0xed/0x9a0 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-dvb.c:290
dvb_usb_adapter_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:90 [inline]
dvb_usb_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:186 [inline]
dvb_usb_device_init+0x25a8/0x3760 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:310
dibusb_probe+0x46/0x250 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-mb.c:110
...
Local variable rb created at:
dib3000_read_reg+0x86/0x4e0 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib3000mb.c:54
dib3000mb_attach+0x123/0x3c0 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib3000mb.c:758
...
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: at_xdmac: avoid null_prt_deref in at_xdmac_prep_dma_memset
The at_xdmac_memset_create_desc may return NULL, which will lead to a
null pointer dereference. For example, the len input is error, or the
atchan->free_descs_list is empty and memory is exhausted. Therefore, add
check to avoid this.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Prevent bad count for tracing_cpumask_write
If a large count is provided, it will trigger a warning in bitmap_parse_user.
Also check zero for it.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/pseries/vas: Add close() callback in vas_vm_ops struct
The mapping VMA address is saved in VAS window struct when the
paste address is mapped. This VMA address is used during migration
to unmap the paste address if the window is active. The paste
address mapping will be removed when the window is closed or with
the munmap(). But the VMA address in the VAS window is not updated
with munmap() which is causing invalid access during migration.
The KASAN report shows:
[16386.254991] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in reconfig_close_windows+0x1a0/0x4e8
[16386.255043] Read of size 8 at addr c00000014a819670 by task drmgr/696928
[16386.255096] CPU: 29 UID: 0 PID: 696928 Comm: drmgr Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B 6.11.0-rc5-nxgzip #2
[16386.255128] Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE
[16386.255148] Hardware name: IBM,9080-HEX Power11 (architected) 0x820200 0xf000007 of:IBM,FW1110.00 (NH1110_016) hv:phyp pSeries
[16386.255181] Call Trace:
[16386.255202] [c00000016b297660] [c0000000018ad0ac] dump_stack_lvl+0x84/0xe8 (unreliable)
[16386.255246] [c00000016b297690] [c0000000006e8a90] print_report+0x19c/0x764
[16386.255285] [c00000016b297760] [c0000000006e9490] kasan_report+0x128/0x1f8
[16386.255309] [c00000016b297880] [c0000000006eb5c8] __asan_load8+0xac/0xe0
[16386.255326] [c00000016b2978a0] [c00000000013f898] reconfig_close_windows+0x1a0/0x4e8
[16386.255343] [c00000016b297990] [c000000000140e58] vas_migration_handler+0x3a4/0x3fc
[16386.255368] [c00000016b297a90] [c000000000128848] pseries_migrate_partition+0x4c/0x4c4
...
[16386.256136] Allocated by task 696554 on cpu 31 at 16377.277618s:
[16386.256149] kasan_save_stack+0x34/0x68
[16386.256163] kasan_save_track+0x34/0x80
[16386.256175] kasan_save_alloc_info+0x58/0x74
[16386.256196] __kasan_slab_alloc+0xb8/0xdc
[16386.256209] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x200/0x3d0
[16386.256225] vm_area_alloc+0x44/0x150
[16386.256245] mmap_region+0x214/0x10c4
[16386.256265] do_mmap+0x5fc/0x750
[16386.256277] vm_mmap_pgoff+0x14c/0x24c
[16386.256292] ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x20c/0x348
[16386.256303] sys_mmap+0xd0/0x160
...
[16386.256350] Freed by task 0 on cpu 31 at 16386.204848s:
[16386.256363] kasan_save_stack+0x34/0x68
[16386.256374] kasan_save_track+0x34/0x80
[16386.256384] kasan_save_free_info+0x64/0x10c
[16386.256396] __kasan_slab_free+0x120/0x204
[16386.256415] kmem_cache_free+0x128/0x450
[16386.256428] vm_area_free_rcu_cb+0xa8/0xd8
[16386.256441] rcu_do_batch+0x2c8/0xcf0
[16386.256458] rcu_core+0x378/0x3c4
[16386.256473] handle_softirqs+0x20c/0x60c
[16386.256495] do_softirq_own_stack+0x6c/0x88
[16386.256509] do_softirq_own_stack+0x58/0x88
[16386.256521] __irq_exit_rcu+0x1a4/0x20c
[16386.256533] irq_exit+0x20/0x38
[16386.256544] interrupt_async_exit_prepare.constprop.0+0x18/0x2c
...
[16386.256717] Last potentially related work creation:
[16386.256729] kasan_save_stack+0x34/0x68
[16386.256741] __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xcc/0x12c
[16386.256753] __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x94/0xd04
[16386.256766] vm_area_free+0x28/0x3c
[16386.256778] remove_vma+0xf4/0x114
[16386.256797] do_vmi_align_munmap.constprop.0+0x684/0x870
[16386.256811] __vm_munmap+0xe0/0x1f8
[16386.256821] sys_munmap+0x54/0x6c
[16386.256830] system_call_exception+0x1a0/0x4a0
[16386.256841] system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
[16386.256868] The buggy address belongs to the object at c00000014a819670
which belongs to the cache vm_area_struct of size 168
[16386.256887] The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
freed 168-byte region [c00000014a819670, c00000014a819718)
[16386.256915] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[16386.256928] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x14a81
[16386.256950] memcg:c0000000ba430001
[16386.256961] anon flags: 0x43ffff800000000(node=4|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x7ffff)
[16386.256975] page_type: 0xfdffffff(slab)
[16386
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: btusb: mediatek: add intf release flow when usb disconnect
MediaTek claim an special usb intr interface for ISO data transmission.
The interface need to be released before unregistering hci device when
usb disconnect. Removing BT usb dongle without properly releasing the
interface may cause Kernel panic while unregister hci device.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix use-after-free when COWing tree bock and tracing is enabled
When a COWing a tree block, at btrfs_cow_block(), and we have the
tracepoint trace_btrfs_cow_block() enabled and preemption is also enabled
(CONFIG_PREEMPT=y), we can trigger a use-after-free in the COWed extent
buffer while inside the tracepoint code. This is because in some paths
that call btrfs_cow_block(), such as btrfs_search_slot(), we are holding
the last reference on the extent buffer @buf so btrfs_force_cow_block()
drops the last reference on the @buf extent buffer when it calls
free_extent_buffer_stale(buf), which schedules the release of the extent
buffer with RCU. This means that if we are on a kernel with preemption,
the current task may be preempted before calling trace_btrfs_cow_block()
and the extent buffer already released by the time trace_btrfs_cow_block()
is called, resulting in a use-after-free.
Fix this by moving the trace_btrfs_cow_block() from btrfs_cow_block() to
btrfs_force_cow_block() before the COWed extent buffer is freed.
This also has a side effect of invoking the tracepoint in the tree defrag
code, at defrag.c:btrfs_realloc_node(), since btrfs_force_cow_block() is
called there, but this is fine and it was actually missing there.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfs/fscache: Add a memory barrier for FSCACHE_VOLUME_CREATING
In fscache_create_volume(), there is a missing memory barrier between the
bit-clearing operation and the wake-up operation. This may cause a
situation where, after a wake-up, the bit-clearing operation hasn't been
detected yet, leading to an indefinite wait. The triggering process is as
follows:
[cookie1] [cookie2] [volume_work]
fscache_perform_lookup
fscache_create_volume
fscache_perform_lookup
fscache_create_volume
fscache_create_volume_work
cachefiles_acquire_volume
clear_and_wake_up_bit
test_and_set_bit
test_and_set_bit
goto maybe_wait
goto no_wait
In the above process, cookie1 and cookie2 has the same volume. When cookie1
enters the -no_wait- process, it will clear the bit and wake up the waiting
process. If a barrier is missing, it may cause cookie2 to remain in the
-wait- process indefinitely.
In commit 3288666c7256 ("fscache: Use clear_and_wake_up_bit() in
fscache_create_volume_work()"), barriers were added to similar operations
in fscache_create_volume_work(), but fscache_create_volume() was missed.
By combining the clear and wake operations into clear_and_wake_up_bit() to
fix this issue.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-29
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