CVE-2023-52909

nfsd: fix handling of cached open files in nfsd4_open codepath

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Aug 21, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Aug 21, 2024

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Description

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

nfsd: fix handling of cached open files in nfsd4_open codepath

Commit fb70bf124b05 ("NFSD: Instantiate a struct file when creating a regular NFSv4 file") added the ability to cache an open fd over a compound. There are a couple of problems with the way this currently works:

It's racy, as a newly-created nfsd_file can end up with its PENDING bit cleared while the nf is hashed, and the nf_file pointer is still zeroed out. Other tasks can find it in this state and they expect to see a valid nf_file, and can oops if nf_file is NULL.

Also, there is no guarantee that we'll end up creating a new nfsd_file if one is already in the hash. If an extant entry is in the hash with a valid nf_file, nfs4_get_vfs_file will clobber its nf_file pointer with the value of op_file and the old nf_file will leak.

Fix both issues by making a new nfsd_file_acquirei_opened variant that takes an optional file pointer. If one is present when this is called, we'll take a new reference to it instead of trying to open the file. If the nfsd_file already has a valid nf_file, we'll just ignore the optional file and pass the nfsd_file back as-is.

Also rework the tracepoints a bit to allow for an "opened" variant and don't try to avoid counting acquisitions in the case where we already have a cached open file.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c20097329d2c196b818c4666c7820c1378d69d61 to before 45c08a752982116f3287afcd1bd9c50f4fab0c28Affected
  • 106331a12b0fa5afa6995b1f9ebb03ddcaac6915 to before 0b778361998d6c6356b8d2fc7ddf025fb3224654Affected
  • fb70bf124b051d4ded4ce57511dfec6d3ebf2b43 to before 973acfdfe90c8a4e58ade97ff0653a498531ff2eAffected
  • fb70bf124b051d4ded4ce57511dfec6d3ebf2b43 to before 0b3a551fa58b4da941efeb209b3770868e2eddd7Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.19Affected
  • before 5.19Not affected
  • 6.1.7 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2 and laterNot affected

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