CVE-2021-47584

iocost: Fix divide-by-zero on donation from low hweight cgroup

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 19, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 24, 2024

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Description

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

iocost: Fix divide-by-zero on donation from low hweight cgroup

The donation calculation logic assumes that the donor has non-zero after-donation hweight, so the lowest active hweight a donating cgroup can have is 2 so that it can donate 1 while keeping the other 1 for itself. Earlier, we only donated from cgroups with sizable surpluses so this condition was always true. However, with the precise donation algorithm implemented, f1de2439ec43 ("blk-iocost: revamp donation amount determination") made the donation amount calculation exact enabling even low hweight cgroups to donate.

This means that in rare occasions, a cgroup with active hweight of 1 can enter donation calculation triggering the following warning and then a divide-by-zero oops.

WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 0 at block/blk-iocost.c:1928 transfer_surpluses.cold+0x0/0x53 [884/94867] ... RIP: 0010:transfer_surpluses.cold+0x0/0x53 Code: 92 ff 48 c7 c7 28 d1 ab b5 65 48 8b 34 25 00 ae 01 00 48 81 c6 90 06 00 00 e8 8b 3f fe ff 48 c7 c0 ea ff ff ff e9 95 ff 92 ff <0f> 0b 48 c7 c7 30 da ab b5 e8 71 3f fe ff 4c 89 e8 4d 85 ed 74 0 4 ... Call Trace: <IRQ> ioc_timer_fn+0x1043/0x1390 call_timer_fn+0xa1/0x2c0 __run_timers.part.0+0x1ec/0x2e0 run_timer_softirq+0x35/0x70 ... iocg: invalid donation weights in /a/b: active=1 donating=1 after=0

Fix it by excluding cgroups w/ active hweight < 2 from donating. Excluding these extreme low hweight donations shouldn't affect work conservation in any meaningful way.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f1de2439ec43b74764f2a26e3a310b24407e3bde to before a7c80674538f15f85d68138240aae440b8039519Affected
  • f1de2439ec43b74764f2a26e3a310b24407e3bde to before 3a1a4eb574178c21241a6200f4785572e661c472Affected
  • f1de2439ec43b74764f2a26e3a310b24407e3bde to before edaa26334c117a584add6053f48d63a988d25a6eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.10Affected
  • before 5.10Not affected
  • 5.10.88 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.11 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.16 and laterNot affected

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