CVE-2024-50250

fsdax: dax_unshare_iter needs to copy entire blocks

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Nov 9, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Oct 21, 2024

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Description

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

fsdax: dax_unshare_iter needs to copy entire blocks

The code that copies data from srcmap to iomap in dax_unshare_iter is very very broken, which bfoster's recent fsx changes have exposed.

If the pos and len passed to dax_file_unshare are not aligned to an fsblock boundary, the iter pos and length in the _iter function will reflect this unalignment.

dax_iomap_direct_access always returns a pointer to the start of the kmapped fsdax page, even if its pos argument is in the middle of that page. This is catastrophic for data integrity when iter->pos is not aligned to a page, because daddr/saddr do not point to the same byte in the file as iter->pos. Hence we corrupt user data by copying it to the wrong place.

If iter->pos + iomap_length() in the _iter function not aligned to a page, then we fail to copy a full block, and only partially populate the destination block. This is catastrophic for data confidentiality because we expose stale pmem contents.

Fix both of these issues by aligning copy_pos/copy_len to a page boundary (remember, this is fsdax so 1 fsblock == 1 base page) so that we always copy full blocks.

We're not done yet -- there's no call to invalidate_inode_pages2_range, so programs that have the file range mmap'd will continue accessing the old memory mapping after the file metadata updates have completed.

Be careful with the return value -- if the unshare succeeds, we still need to return the number of bytes that the iomap iter thinks we're operating on.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1bec6782a25c9b92c203ea7a1b3e3dc6a468cbc4 to before bdbc96c23197d773a7d1bf03e4f11de593b0ff28Affected
  • d984648e428bf88cbd94ebe346c73632cb92fffb to before 9bc18bb476e50e32e5d08f2734d63d63e0fa528cAffected
  • d984648e428bf88cbd94ebe346c73632cb92fffb to before 8e9c0f500b42216ef930f5c0d1703989a451913dAffected
  • d984648e428bf88cbd94ebe346c73632cb92fffb to before 50793801fc7f6d08def48754fb0f0706b0cfc394Affected
  • 6.1.113 to before 6.1.116Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.2Affected
  • before 6.2Not affected
  • 6.1.116 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.60 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.11.7 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12 and laterNot affected

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