CVE-2021-47163

tipc: wait and exit until all work queues are done

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Mar 25, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Mar 25, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tipc: wait and exit until all work queues are done

On some host, a crash could be triggered simply by repeating these commands several times:

# modprobe tipc # tipc bearer enable media udp name UDP1 localip 127.0.0.1 # rmmod tipc

[] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffc096bb00 [] Workqueue: events 0xffffffffc096bb00 [] Call Trace: [] ? process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360 [] ? worker_thread+0x30/0x390 [] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0 [] ? kthread+0x116/0x130 [] ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10 [] ? ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

When removing the TIPC module, the UDP tunnel sock will be delayed to release in a work queue as sock_release() can't be done in rtnl_lock(). If the work queue is schedule to run after the TIPC module is removed, kernel will crash as the work queue function cleanup_beareri() code no longer exists when trying to invoke it.

To fix it, this patch introduce a member wq_count in tipc_net to track the numbers of work queues in schedule, and wait and exit until all work queues are done in tipc_exit_net().

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d0f91938bede204a343473792529e0db7d599836 to before d1f76dfadaf8f47ed1753f97dbcbd41c16215ffaAffected
  • d0f91938bede204a343473792529e0db7d599836 to before 5195ec5e365a2a9331bfeb585b613a6e94f98dbaAffected
  • d0f91938bede204a343473792529e0db7d599836 to before b9f5b7ad4ac3af006443f535b1ce7bff1d130d7dAffected
  • d0f91938bede204a343473792529e0db7d599836 to before 04c26faa51d1e2fe71cf13c45791f5174c37f986Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.1Affected
  • before 4.1Not affected
  • 5.4.124 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.42 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.12.9 through 5.12.*Not affected
  • 5.13 and laterNot affected

References

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