CVE-2023-52468

class: fix use-after-free in class_register()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Feb 25, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 20, 2024

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Description

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

class: fix use-after-free in class_register()

The lock_class_key is still registered and can be found in lock_keys_hash hlist after subsys_private is freed in error handler path.A task who iterate over the lock_keys_hash later may cause use-after-free.So fix that up and unregister the lock_class_key before kfree(cp).

On our platform, a driver fails to kset_register because of creating duplicate filename '/class/xxx'.With Kasan enabled, it prints a invalid-access bug report.

KASAN bug report:

BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in lockdep_register_key+0x19c/0x1bc Write of size 8 at addr 15ffff808b8c0368 by task modprobe/252 Pointer tag: [15], memory tag: [fe]

CPU: 7 PID: 252 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G W 6.6.0-mainline-maybe-dirty #1

Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x1b0/0x1e4 show_stack+0x2c/0x40 dump_stack_lvl+0xac/0xe0 print_report+0x18c/0x4d8 kasan_report+0xe8/0x148 __hwasan_store8_noabort+0x88/0x98 lockdep_register_key+0x19c/0x1bc class_register+0x94/0x1ec init_module+0xbc/0xf48 [rfkill] do_one_initcall+0x17c/0x72c do_init_module+0x19c/0x3f8 ... Memory state around the buggy address: ffffff808b8c0100: 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a ffffff808b8c0200: 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe >ffffff808b8c0300: fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe ^ ffffff808b8c0400: 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03

As CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC is not set, Kasan reports invalid-access not use-after-free here.In this case, modprobe is manipulating the corrupted lock_keys_hash hlish where lock_class_key is already freed before.

It's worth noting that this only can happen if lockdep is enabled, which is not true for normal system.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • dcfbb67e48a2becfce7990386e985b9c45098ee5 to before b57196a5ec5e4c0ffecde8348b085b778c7dce04Affected
  • dcfbb67e48a2becfce7990386e985b9c45098ee5 to before 0f1486dafca3398c4c46b9f6e6452fa27e73b559Affected
  • dcfbb67e48a2becfce7990386e985b9c45098ee5 to before 93ec4a3b76404bce01bd5c9032bef5df6feb1d62Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.4Affected
  • before 6.4Not affected
  • 6.6.14 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.7.2 through 6.7.*Not affected
  • 6.8 and laterNot affected

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