CVE-2021-47379

blk-cgroup: fix UAF by grabbing blkcg lock before destroying blkg pd

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 21, 2024
Updated
May 23, 2026
Reserved
May 21, 2024

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Description

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

blk-cgroup: fix UAF by grabbing blkcg lock before destroying blkg pd

KASAN reports a use-after-free report when doing fuzz test:

[693354.104835] ================================================================== [693354.105094] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in bfq_io_set_weight_legacy+0xd3/0x160 [693354.105336] Read of size 4 at addr ffff888be0a35664 by task sh/1453338

[693354.105607] CPU: 41 PID: 1453338 Comm: sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 4.18.0-147 [693354.105610] Hardware name: Huawei 2288H V5/BC11SPSCB0, BIOS 0.81 07/02/2018 [693354.105612] Call Trace: [693354.105621] dump_stack+0xf1/0x19b [693354.105626] ? show_regs_print_info+0x5/0x5 [693354.105634] ? printk+0x9c/0xc3 [693354.105638] ? cpumask_weight+0x1f/0x1f [693354.105648] print_address_description+0x70/0x360 [693354.105654] kasan_report+0x1b2/0x330 [693354.105659] ? bfq_io_set_weight_legacy+0xd3/0x160 [693354.105665] ? bfq_io_set_weight_legacy+0xd3/0x160 [693354.105670] bfq_io_set_weight_legacy+0xd3/0x160 [693354.105675] ? bfq_cpd_init+0x20/0x20 [693354.105683] cgroup_file_write+0x3aa/0x510 [693354.105693] ? ___slab_alloc+0x507/0x540 [693354.105698] ? cgroup_file_poll+0x60/0x60 [693354.105702] ? 0xffffffff89600000 [693354.105708] ? usercopy_abort+0x90/0x90 [693354.105716] ? mutex_lock+0xef/0x180 [693354.105726] kernfs_fop_write+0x1ab/0x280 [693354.105732] ? cgroup_file_poll+0x60/0x60 [693354.105738] vfs_write+0xe7/0x230 [693354.105744] ksys_write+0xb0/0x140 [693354.105749] ? __ia32_sys_read+0x50/0x50 [693354.105760] do_syscall_64+0x112/0x370 [693354.105766] ? syscall_return_slowpath+0x260/0x260 [693354.105772] ? do_page_fault+0x9b/0x270 [693354.105779] ? prepare_exit_to_usermode+0xf9/0x1a0 [693354.105784] ? enter_from_user_mode+0x30/0x30 [693354.105793] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca

[693354.105875] Allocated by task 1453337: [693354.106001] kasan_kmalloc+0xa0/0xd0 [693354.106006] kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0x108/0x220 [693354.106010] bfq_pd_alloc+0x96/0x120 [693354.106015] blkcg_activate_policy+0x1b7/0x2b0 [693354.106020] bfq_create_group_hierarchy+0x1e/0x80 [693354.106026] bfq_init_queue+0x678/0x8c0 [693354.106031] blk_mq_init_sched+0x1f8/0x460 [693354.106037] elevator_switch_mq+0xe1/0x240 [693354.106041] elevator_switch+0x25/0x40 [693354.106045] elv_iosched_store+0x1a1/0x230 [693354.106049] queue_attr_store+0x78/0xb0 [693354.106053] kernfs_fop_write+0x1ab/0x280 [693354.106056] vfs_write+0xe7/0x230 [693354.106060] ksys_write+0xb0/0x140 [693354.106064] do_syscall_64+0x112/0x370 [693354.106069] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca

[693354.106114] Freed by task 1453336: [693354.106225] __kasan_slab_free+0x130/0x180 [693354.106229] kfree+0x90/0x1b0 [693354.106233] blkcg_deactivate_policy+0x12c/0x220 [693354.106238] bfq_exit_queue+0xf5/0x110 [693354.106241] blk_mq_exit_sched+0x104/0x130 [693354.106245] __elevator_exit+0x45/0x60 [693354.106249] elevator_switch_mq+0xd6/0x240 [693354.106253] elevator_switch+0x25/0x40 [693354.106257] elv_iosched_store+0x1a1/0x230 [693354.106261] queue_attr_store+0x78/0xb0 [693354.106264] kernfs_fop_write+0x1ab/0x280 [693354.106268] vfs_write+0xe7/0x230 [693354.106271] ksys_write+0xb0/0x140 [693354.106275] do_syscall_64+0x112/0x370 [693354.106280] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca

[693354.106329] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888be0a35580 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024 [693354.106736] The buggy address is located 228 bytes inside of 1024-byte region [ffff888be0a35580, ffff888be0a35980) [693354.107114] The buggy address belongs to the page: [693354.107273] page:ffffea002f828c00 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff888107c17080 index:0x0 compound_mapcount: 0 [693354.107606] flags: 0x17ffffc0008100(slab|head) [693354.107760] raw: 0017ffffc0008100 ffffea002fcbc808 ffffea0030bd3a08 ffff888107c17080 [693354.108020] r ---truncated---

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 946b81da114b8ba5c74bb01e57c0c6eca2bdc801 to before d12ddd843f1877de1f7dd2aeea4907cf9ff3ac08Affected
  • 946b81da114b8ba5c74bb01e57c0c6eca2bdc801 to before f58d305887ad7b24986d58e881f6806bb81b2bdfAffected
  • 946b81da114b8ba5c74bb01e57c0c6eca2bdc801 to before 7c2c69e010431b0157c9454adcdd2305809bf9fbAffected
  • 946b81da114b8ba5c74bb01e57c0c6eca2bdc801 to before 858560b27645e7e97aca37ee8f232cccd658fbd2Affected
  • 9d5e2d69705fed4ab527f5a283b90ae602f4e0fdAffected
  • 3ca6e949b751fa3dfbf475ce635364cef543738bAffected
  • 4.14.51 to before 4.15Affected
  • 4.16.17 to before 4.17Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.17Affected
  • before 4.17Not affected
  • 5.4.150 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.70 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.14.9 through 5.14.*Not affected
  • 5.15 and laterNot affected

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