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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: disallow timeout for anonymous sets
Never used from userspace, disallow these parameters.
CVSS Score
2.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: mark set as dead when unbinding anonymous set with timeout
While the rhashtable set gc runs asynchronously, a race allows it to
collect elements from anonymous sets with timeouts while it is being
released from the commit path.
Mingi Cho originally reported this issue in a different path in 6.1.x
with a pipapo set with low timeouts which is not possible upstream since
7395dfacfff6 ("netfilter: nf_tables: use timestamp to check for set
element timeout").
Fix this by setting on the dead flag for anonymous sets to skip async gc
in this case.
According to 08e4c8c5919f ("netfilter: nf_tables: mark newset as dead on
transaction abort"), Florian plans to accelerate abort path by releasing
objects via workqueue, therefore, this sets on the dead flag for abort
path too.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-21
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI: switchtec: Fix stdev_release() crash after surprise hot remove
A PCI device hot removal may occur while stdev->cdev is held open. The call
to stdev_release() then happens during close or exit, at a point way past
switchtec_pci_remove(). Otherwise the last ref would vanish with the
trailing put_device(), just before return.
At that later point in time, the devm cleanup has already removed the
stdev->mmio_mrpc mapping. Also, the stdev->pdev reference was not a counted
one. Therefore, in DMA mode, the iowrite32() in stdev_release() will cause
a fatal page fault, and the subsequent dma_free_coherent(), if reached,
would pass a stale &stdev->pdev->dev pointer.
Fix by moving MRPC DMA shutdown into switchtec_pci_remove(), after
stdev_kill(). Counting the stdev->pdev ref is now optional, but may prevent
future accidents.
Reproducible via the script at
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231113212150.96410-1-dns@arista.com
CVSS Score
4.4
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pstore/ram: Fix crash when setting number of cpus to an odd number
When the number of cpu cores is adjusted to 7 or other odd numbers,
the zone size will become an odd number.
The address of the zone will become:
addr of zone0 = BASE
addr of zone1 = BASE + zone_size
addr of zone2 = BASE + zone_size*2
...
The address of zone1/3/5/7 will be mapped to non-alignment va.
Eventually crashes will occur when accessing these va.
So, use ALIGN_DOWN() to make sure the zone size is even
to avoid this bug.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/kvm: Disable kvmclock on all CPUs on shutdown
Currenly, we disable kvmclock from machine_shutdown() hook and this
only happens for boot CPU. We need to disable it for all CPUs to
guard against memory corruption e.g. on restore from hibernate.
Note, writing '0' to kvmclock MSR doesn't clear memory location, it
just prevents hypervisor from updating the location so for the short
while after write and while CPU is still alive, the clock remains usable
and correct so we don't need to switch to some other clocksource.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/kvm: Teardown PV features on boot CPU as well
Various PV features (Async PF, PV EOI, steal time) work through memory
shared with hypervisor and when we restore from hibernation we must
properly teardown all these features to make sure hypervisor doesn't
write to stale locations after we jump to the previously hibernated kernel
(which can try to place anything there). For secondary CPUs the job is
already done by kvm_cpu_down_prepare(), register syscore ops to do
the same for boot CPU.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: abort in rename_exchange if we fail to insert the second ref
Error injection stress uncovered a problem where we'd leave a dangling
inode ref if we failed during a rename_exchange. This happens because
we insert the inode ref for one side of the rename, and then for the
other side. If this second inode ref insert fails we'll leave the first
one dangling and leave a corrupt file system behind. Fix this by
aborting if we did the insert for the first inode ref.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix data corruption by fallocate
When fallocate punches holes out of inode size, if original isize is in
the middle of last cluster, then the part from isize to the end of the
cluster will be zeroed with buffer write, at that time isize is not yet
updated to match the new size, if writeback is kicked in, it will invoke
ocfs2_writepage()->block_write_full_page() where the pages out of inode
size will be dropped. That will cause file corruption. Fix this by
zero out eof blocks when extending the inode size.
Running the following command with qemu-image 4.2.1 can get a corrupted
coverted image file easily.
qemu-img convert -p -t none -T none -f qcow2 $qcow_image \
-O qcow2 -o compat=1.1 $qcow_image.conv
The usage of fallocate in qemu is like this, it first punches holes out
of inode size, then extend the inode size.
fallocate(11, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE|FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE, 2276196352, 65536) = 0
fallocate(11, 0, 2276196352, 65536) = 0
v1: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg193999.html
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210525093034.GB4112@quack2.suse.cz/T/
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_mb_init_backend on error path.
Fix a memory leak discovered by syzbot when a file system is corrupted
with an illegally large s_log_groups_per_flex.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix bug on in ext4_es_cache_extent as ext4_split_extent_at failed
We got follow bug_on when run fsstress with injecting IO fault:
[130747.323114] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/extents_status.c:762!
[130747.323117] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
......
[130747.334329] Call trace:
[130747.334553] ext4_es_cache_extent+0x150/0x168 [ext4]
[130747.334975] ext4_cache_extents+0x64/0xe8 [ext4]
[130747.335368] ext4_find_extent+0x300/0x330 [ext4]
[130747.335759] ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x74/0x1178 [ext4]
[130747.336179] ext4_map_blocks+0x2f4/0x5f0 [ext4]
[130747.336567] ext4_mpage_readpages+0x4a8/0x7a8 [ext4]
[130747.336995] ext4_readpage+0x54/0x100 [ext4]
[130747.337359] generic_file_buffered_read+0x410/0xae8
[130747.337767] generic_file_read_iter+0x114/0x190
[130747.338152] ext4_file_read_iter+0x5c/0x140 [ext4]
[130747.338556] __vfs_read+0x11c/0x188
[130747.338851] vfs_read+0x94/0x150
[130747.339110] ksys_read+0x74/0xf0
This patch's modification is according to Jan Kara's suggestion in:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-ext4/patch/20210428085158.3728201-1-yebin10@huawei.com/
"I see. Now I understand your patch. Honestly, seeing how fragile is trying
to fix extent tree after split has failed in the middle, I would probably
go even further and make sure we fix the tree properly in case of ENOSPC
and EDQUOT (those are easily user triggerable). Anything else indicates a
HW problem or fs corruption so I'd rather leave the extent tree as is and
don't try to fix it (which also means we will not create overlapping
extents)."
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-03-15