Vulnerability CVE-2021-47343

Vulnerability CVE-2021-47343

Published: 2024-05-21

Description:

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

dm btree remove: assign new_root only when removal succeeds

remove_raw() in dm_btree_remove() may fail due to IO read error
(e.g. read the content of origin block fails during shadowing),
and the value of shadow_spine::root is uninitialized, but
the uninitialized value is still assign to new_root in the
end of dm_btree_remove().

For dm-thin, the value of pmd->details_root or pmd->root will become
an uninitialized value, so if trying to read details_info tree again
out-of-bound memory may occur as showed below:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x3fdcb14c8d7520
CPU: 4 PID: 515 Comm: dmsetup Not tainted 5.13.0-rc6
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC
RIP: 0010:metadata_ll_load_ie+0x14/0x30
Call Trace:
sm_metadata_count_is_more_than_one+0xb9/0xe0
dm_tm_shadow_block+0x52/0x1c0
shadow_step+0x59/0xf0
remove_raw+0xb2/0x170
dm_btree_remove+0xf4/0x1c0
dm_pool_delete_thin_device+0xc3/0x140
pool_message+0x218/0x2b0
target_message+0x251/0x290
ctl_ioctl+0x1c4/0x4d0
dm_ctl_ioctl+0xe/0x20
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x7b/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x40/0xb0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Fixing it by only assign new_root when removal succeeds

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c84b3e0728ffe10d89c633694c35a02b5c477dc

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c154775619186781aaf8a99333ac07437a1768d5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73f27adaa73e3057a9ec464e33c4f54d34ea5de3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fbae4a1bdb5b889490cdee929e68540151536e5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/964d57d1962d7e68f0f578f05d9ae4a104d74851

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba47e65a5de3e0e8270301a409fc63d3129fdb9e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89bf942314b78d454db92427201421b5dec132d9

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad365e9351ac2b450e7e79932ff6abf59342d91a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6e58b5466b2959f83034bead2e2e1395cca8aeb

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