Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 3.16.80 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix task hung in ext4_xattr_delete_inode
Syzbot reported a hung task problem:
==================================================================
INFO: task syz-executor232:5073 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-syzkaller-00024-g512dee0c00ad #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz-exec232 state:D stack:21024 pid:5073 ppid:5072 flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
<TASK>
context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5244 [inline]
__schedule+0x995/0xe20 kernel/sched/core.c:6555
schedule+0xcb/0x190 kernel/sched/core.c:6631
__wait_on_freeing_inode fs/inode.c:2196 [inline]
find_inode_fast+0x35a/0x4c0 fs/inode.c:950
iget_locked+0xb1/0x830 fs/inode.c:1273
__ext4_iget+0x22e/0x3ed0 fs/ext4/inode.c:4861
ext4_xattr_inode_iget+0x68/0x4e0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:389
ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0x1a7/0xe50 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1148
ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xb04/0xcd0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2880
ext4_evict_inode+0xd7c/0x10b0 fs/ext4/inode.c:296
evict+0x2a4/0x620 fs/inode.c:664
ext4_orphan_cleanup+0xb60/0x1340 fs/ext4/orphan.c:474
__ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5516 [inline]
ext4_fill_super+0x81cd/0x8700 fs/ext4/super.c:5644
get_tree_bdev+0x400/0x620 fs/super.c:1282
vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1489
do_new_mount+0x289/0xad0 fs/namespace.c:3145
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3488 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3697 [inline]
__se_sys_mount+0x2d3/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3674
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7fa5406fd5ea
RSP: 002b:00007ffc7232f968 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007fa5406fd5ea
RDX: 0000000020000440 RSI: 0000000020000000 RDI: 00007ffc7232f970
RBP: 00007ffc7232f970 R08: 00007ffc7232f9b0 R09: 0000000000000432
R10: 0000000000804a03 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000004
R13: 0000555556a7a2c0 R14: 00007ffc7232f9b0 R15: 0000000000000000
</TASK>
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The problem is that the inode contains an xattr entry with ea_inum of 15
when cleaning up an orphan inode <15>. When evict inode <15>, the reference
counting of the corresponding EA inode is decreased. When EA inode <15> is
found by find_inode_fast() in __ext4_iget(), it is found that the EA inode
holds the I_FREEING flag and waits for the EA inode to complete deletion.
As a result, when inode <15> is being deleted, we wait for inode <15> to
complete the deletion, resulting in an infinite loop and triggering Hung
Task. To solve this problem, we only need to check whether the ino of EA
inode and parent is the same before getting EA inode.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ftrace: Fix invalid address access in lookup_rec() when index is 0
KASAN reported follow problem:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in lookup_rec
Read of size 8 at addr ffff000199270ff0 by task modprobe
CPU: 2 Comm: modprobe
Call trace:
kasan_report
__asan_load8
lookup_rec
ftrace_location
arch_check_ftrace_location
check_kprobe_address_safe
register_kprobe
When checking pg->records[pg->index - 1].ip in lookup_rec(), it can get a
pg which is newly added to ftrace_pages_start in ftrace_process_locs().
Before the first pg->index++, index is 0 and accessing pg->records[-1].ip
will cause this problem.
Don't check the ip when pg->index is 0.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: usb: smsc95xx: Limit packet length to skb->len
Packet length retrieved from descriptor may be larger than
the actual socket buffer length. In such case the cloned
skb passed up the network stack will leak kernel memory contents.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ca8210: fix mac_len negative array access
This patch fixes a buffer overflow access of skb->data if
ieee802154_hdr_peek_addrs() fails.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla2xxx: Perform lockless command completion in abort path
While adding and removing the controller, the following call trace was
observed:
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 623596 at kernel/dma/mapping.c:532 dma_free_attrs+0x33/0x50
CPU: 3 PID: 623596 Comm: sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.14.0-96.el9.x86_64 #1
RIP: 0010:dma_free_attrs+0x33/0x50
Call Trace:
qla2x00_async_sns_sp_done+0x107/0x1b0 [qla2xxx]
qla2x00_abort_srb+0x8e/0x250 [qla2xxx]
? ql_dbg+0x70/0x100 [qla2xxx]
__qla2x00_abort_all_cmds+0x108/0x190 [qla2xxx]
qla2x00_abort_all_cmds+0x24/0x70 [qla2xxx]
qla2x00_abort_isp_cleanup+0x305/0x3e0 [qla2xxx]
qla2x00_remove_one+0x364/0x400 [qla2xxx]
pci_device_remove+0x36/0xa0
__device_release_driver+0x17a/0x230
device_release_driver+0x24/0x30
pci_stop_bus_device+0x68/0x90
pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked+0x16/0x30
remove_store+0x75/0x90
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x11c/0x1b0
new_sync_write+0x11f/0x1b0
vfs_write+0x1eb/0x280
ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x80
? do_user_addr_fault+0x1d8/0x680
? do_syscall_64+0x69/0x80
? exc_page_fault+0x62/0x140
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
The command was completed in the abort path during driver unload with a
lock held, causing the warning in abort path. Hence complete the command
without any lock held.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm stats: check for and propagate alloc_percpu failure
Check alloc_precpu()'s return value and return an error from
dm_stats_init() if it fails. Update alloc_dev() to fail if
dm_stats_init() does.
Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference will occur in dm_stats_cleanup()
even if dm-stats isn't being actively used.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: u_audio: don't let userspace block driver unbind
In the unbind callback for f_uac1 and f_uac2, a call to snd_card_free()
via g_audio_cleanup() will disconnect the card and then wait for all
resources to be released, which happens when the refcount falls to zero.
Since userspace can keep the refcount incremented by not closing the
relevant file descriptor, the call to unbind may block indefinitely.
This can cause a deadlock during reboot, as evidenced by the following
blocked task observed on my machine:
task:reboot state:D stack:0 pid:2827 ppid:569 flags:0x0000000c
Call trace:
__switch_to+0xc8/0x140
__schedule+0x2f0/0x7c0
schedule+0x60/0xd0
schedule_timeout+0x180/0x1d4
wait_for_completion+0x78/0x180
snd_card_free+0x90/0xa0
g_audio_cleanup+0x2c/0x64
afunc_unbind+0x28/0x60
...
kernel_restart+0x4c/0xac
__do_sys_reboot+0xcc/0x1ec
__arm64_sys_reboot+0x28/0x30
invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x110
...
The issue can also be observed by opening the card with arecord and
then stopping the process through the shell before unbinding:
# arecord -D hw:UAC2Gadget -f S32_LE -c 2 -r 48000 /dev/null
Recording WAVE '/dev/null' : Signed 32 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo
^Z[1]+ Stopped arecord -D hw:UAC2Gadget -f S32_LE -c 2 -r 48000 /dev/null
# echo gadget.0 > /sys/bus/gadget/drivers/configfs-gadget/unbind
(observe that the unbind command never finishes)
Fix the problem by using snd_card_free_when_closed() instead, which will
still disconnect the card as desired, but defer the task of freeing the
resources to the core once userspace closes its file descriptor.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: VMX: Do _all_ initialization before exposing /dev/kvm to userspace
Call kvm_init() only after _all_ setup is complete, as kvm_init() exposes
/dev/kvm to userspace and thus allows userspace to create VMs (and call
other ioctls). E.g. KVM will encounter a NULL pointer when attempting to
add a vCPU to the per-CPU loaded_vmcss_on_cpu list if userspace is able to
create a VM before vmx_init() configures said list.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
CPU: 6 PID: 1143 Comm: stable Not tainted 6.0.0-rc7+ #988
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
RIP: 0010:vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs+0x68/0x230 [kvm_intel]
<TASK>
vmx_vcpu_load+0x16/0x60 [kvm_intel]
kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x32/0x1f0 [kvm]
vcpu_load+0x2f/0x40 [kvm]
kvm_arch_vcpu_create+0x231/0x310 [kvm]
kvm_vm_ioctl+0x79f/0xe10 [kvm]
? handle_mm_fault+0xb1/0x220
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x80/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x50
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
RIP: 0033:0x7f5a6b05743b
</TASK>
Modules linked in: vhost_net vhost vhost_iotlb tap kvm_intel(+) kvm irqbypass
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: lpfc: Check kzalloc() in lpfc_sli4_cgn_params_read()
If kzalloc() fails in lpfc_sli4_cgn_params_read(), then we rely on
lpfc_read_object()'s routine to NULL check pdata.
Currently, an early return error is thrown from lpfc_read_object() to
protect us from NULL ptr dereference, but the errno code is -ENODEV.
Change the errno code to a more appropriate -ENOMEM.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
codel: remove sch->q.qlen check before qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog()
After making all ->qlen_notify() callbacks idempotent, now it is safe to
remove the check of qlen!=0 from both fq_codel_dequeue() and
codel_qdisc_dequeue().
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02