Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.16.12 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/sclp: Prevent release of buffer in I/O
When a task waiting for completion of a Store Data operation is
interrupted, an attempt is made to halt this operation. If this attempt
fails due to a hardware or firmware problem, there is a chance that the
SCLP facility might store data into buffers referenced by the original
operation at a later time.
Handle this situation by not releasing the referenced data buffers if
the halt attempt fails. For current use cases, this might result in a
leak of few pages of memory in case of a rare hardware/firmware
malfunction.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Fix invalid WQ linked list unlink
When all the strides in a WQE have been consumed, the WQE is unlinked
from the WQ linked list (mlx5_wq_ll_pop()). For SHAMPO, it is possible
to receive CQEs with 0 consumed strides for the same WQE even after the
WQE is fully consumed and unlinked. This triggers an additional unlink
for the same wqe which corrupts the linked list.
Fix this scenario by accepting 0 sized consumed strides without
unlinking the WQE again.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: do not clear page dirty inside extent_write_locked_range()
[BUG]
For subpage + zoned case, the following workload can lead to rsv data
leak at unmount time:
# mkfs.btrfs -f -s 4k $dev
# mount $dev $mnt
# fsstress -w -n 8 -d $mnt -s 1709539240
0/0: fiemap - no filename
0/1: copyrange read - no filename
0/2: write - no filename
0/3: rename - no source filename
0/4: creat f0 x:0 0 0
0/4: creat add id=0,parent=-1
0/5: writev f0[259 1 0 0 0 0] [778052,113,965] 0
0/6: ioctl(FIEMAP) f0[259 1 0 0 224 887097] [1294220,2291618343991484791,0x10000] -1
0/7: dwrite - xfsctl(XFS_IOC_DIOINFO) f0[259 1 0 0 224 887097] return 25, fallback to stat()
0/7: dwrite f0[259 1 0 0 224 887097] [696320,102400] 0
# umount $mnt
The dmesg includes the following rsv leak detection warning (all call
trace skipped):
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WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 4528 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:8653 btrfs_destroy_inode+0x1e0/0x200 [btrfs]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
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WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 4528 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:8654 btrfs_destroy_inode+0x1a8/0x200 [btrfs]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
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WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 4528 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:8660 btrfs_destroy_inode+0x1a0/0x200 [btrfs]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
BTRFS info (device sda): last unmount of filesystem 1b4abba9-de34-4f07-9e7f-157cf12a18d6
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WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 4528 at fs/btrfs/block-group.c:4434 btrfs_free_block_groups+0x338/0x500 [btrfs]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
BTRFS info (device sda): space_info DATA has 268218368 free, is not full
BTRFS info (device sda): space_info total=268435456, used=204800, pinned=0, reserved=0, may_use=12288, readonly=0 zone_unusable=0
BTRFS info (device sda): global_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): trans_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): chunk_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): delayed_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): delayed_refs_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
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WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 4528 at fs/btrfs/block-group.c:4434 btrfs_free_block_groups+0x338/0x500 [btrfs]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
BTRFS info (device sda): space_info METADATA has 267796480 free, is not full
BTRFS info (device sda): space_info total=268435456, used=131072, pinned=0, reserved=0, may_use=262144, readonly=0 zone_unusable=245760
BTRFS info (device sda): global_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): trans_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): chunk_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): delayed_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): delayed_refs_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
Above $dev is a tcmu-runner emulated zoned HDD, which has a max zone
append size of 64K, and the system has 64K page size.
[CAUSE]
I have added several trace_printk() to show the events (header skipped):
> btrfs_dirty_pages: r/i=5/259 dirty start=774144 len=114688
> btrfs_dirty_pages: r/i=5/259 dirty part of page=720896 off_in_page=53248 len_in_page=12288
> btrfs_dirty_pages: r/i=5/259 dirty part of page=786432 off_in_page=0 len_in_page=65536
> btrfs_dirty_pages: r/i=5/259 dirty part of page=851968 off_in_page=0 len_in_page=36864
The above lines show our buffered write has dirtied 3 pages of inode
259 of root 5:
704K 768K 832K 896K
I |////I/////////////////I///////////| I
756K 868K
|///| is the dirtied range using subpage bitmaps. and 'I' is the page
boundary.
Meanwhile all three pages (704K, 768K, 832K) have their PageDirty
flag set.
> btrfs_direct_write: r/i=5/259 start dio filepos=696320 len=102400
Then direct IO writ
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
parisc: fix a possible DMA corruption
ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN was defined as 16 - this is too small - it may be
possible that two unrelated 16-byte allocations share a cache line. If
one of these allocations is written using DMA and the other is written
using cached write, the value that was written with DMA may be
corrupted.
This commit changes ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to be 128 on PA20 and 32 on PA1.1 -
that's the largest possible cache line size.
As different parisc microarchitectures have different cache line size, we
define arch_slab_minalign(), cache_line_size() and
dma_get_cache_alignment() so that the kernel may tune slab cache
parameters dynamically, based on the detected cache line size.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: line6: Fix racy access to midibuf
There can be concurrent accesses to line6 midibuf from both the URB
completion callback and the rawmidi API access. This could be a cause
of KMSAN warning triggered by syzkaller below (so put as reported-by
here).
This patch protects the midibuf call of the former code path with a
spinlock for avoiding the possible races.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/xe/preempt_fence: enlarge the fence critical section
It is really easy to introduce subtle deadlocks in
preempt_fence_work_func() since we operate on single global ordered-wq
for signalling our preempt fences behind the scenes, so even though we
signal a particular fence, everything in the callback should be in the
fence critical section, since blocking in the callback will prevent
other published fences from signalling. If we enlarge the fence critical
section to cover the entire callback, then lockdep should be able to
understand this better, and complain if we grab a sensitive lock like
vm->lock, which is also held when waiting on preempt fences.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xen: privcmd: Switch from mutex to spinlock for irqfds
irqfd_wakeup() gets EPOLLHUP, when it is called by
eventfd_release() by way of wake_up_poll(&ctx->wqh, EPOLLHUP), which
gets called under spin_lock_irqsave(). We can't use a mutex here as it
will lead to a deadlock.
Fix it by switching over to a spin lock.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: core: Check for unset descriptor
Make sure the descriptor has been set before looking at maxpacket.
This fixes a null pointer panic in this case.
This may happen if the gadget doesn't properly set up the endpoint
for the current speed, or the gadget descriptors are malformed and
the descriptor for the speed/endpoint are not found.
No current gadget driver is known to have this problem, but this
may cause a hard-to-find bug during development of new gadgets.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: Forward soft recovery errors to userspace
As we discussed before[1], soft recovery should be
forwarded to userspace, or we can get into a really
bad state where apps will keep submitting hanging
command buffers cascading us to a hard reset.
1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/bf23d5ed-9a6b-43e7-84ee-8cbfd0d60f18@froggi.es/
(cherry picked from commit 434967aadbbbe3ad9103cc29e9a327de20fdba01)
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Shutdown timer and prevent rearming when driver unloading
When unload the btnxpuart driver, its associated timer will be deleted.
If the timer happens to be modified at this moment, it leads to the
kernel call this timer even after the driver unloaded, resulting in
kernel panic.
Use timer_shutdown_sync() instead of del_timer_sync() to prevent rearming.
panic log:
Internal error: Oops: 0000000086000007 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg moal(O) mlan(O) crct10dif_ce polyval_ce polyval_generic snd_soc_imx_card snd_soc_fsl_asoc_card snd_soc_imx_audmux mxc_jpeg_encdec v4l2_jpeg snd_soc_wm8962 snd_soc_fsl_micfil snd_soc_fsl_sai flexcan snd_soc_fsl_utils ap130x rpmsg_ctrl imx_pcm_dma can_dev rpmsg_char pwm_fan fuse [last unloaded: btnxpuart]
CPU: 5 PID: 723 Comm: memtester Tainted: G O 6.6.23-lts-next-06207-g4aef2658ac28 #1
Hardware name: NXP i.MX95 19X19 board (DT)
pstate: 20400009 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : 0xffff80007a2cf464
lr : call_timer_fn.isra.0+0x24/0x80
...
Call trace:
0xffff80007a2cf464
__run_timers+0x234/0x280
run_timer_softirq+0x20/0x40
__do_softirq+0x100/0x26c
____do_softirq+0x10/0x1c
call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x4c
do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x2c
irq_exit_rcu+0xc0/0xdc
el0_interrupt+0x54/0xd8
__el0_irq_handler_common+0x18/0x24
el0t_64_irq_handler+0x10/0x1c
el0t_64_irq+0x190/0x194
Code: ???????? ???????? ???????? ???????? (????????)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception in interrupt
SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
Kernel Offset: disabled
CPU features: 0x0,c0000000,40028143,1000721b
Memory Limit: none
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception in interrupt ]---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-09-04