Vulnerability CVE-2021-47379

Vulnerability CVE-2021-47379

Published: 2024-05-21

Description:

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

blk-cgroup: fix UAF by grabbing blkcg lock before destroying blkg pd

KASAN reports a use-after-free report when doing fuzz test:

[693354.104835] ==================================================================
[693354.105094] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in bfq_io_set_weight_legacy+0xd3/0x160
[693354.105336] Read of size 4 at addr ffff888be0a35664 by task sh/1453338

[693354.105607] CPU: 41 PID: 1453338 Comm: sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 4.18.0-147
[693354.105610] Hardware name: Huawei 2288H V5/BC11SPSCB0, BIOS 0.81 07/02/2018
[693354.105612] Call Trace:
[693354.105621] dump_stack+0xf1/0x19b
[693354.105626] ? show_regs_print_info+0x5/0x5
[693354.105634] ? printk+0x9c/0xc3
[693354.105638] ? cpumask_weight+0x1f/0x1f
[693354.105648] print_address_description+0x70/0x360
[693354.105654] kasan_report+0x1b2/0x330
[693354.105659] ? bfq_io_set_weight_legacy+0xd3/0x160
[693354.105665] ? bfq_io_set_weight_legacy+0xd3/0x160
[693354.105670] bfq_io_set_weight_legacy+0xd3/0x160
[693354.105675] ? bfq_cpd_init+0x20/0x20
[693354.105683] cgroup_file_write+0x3aa/0x510
[693354.105693] ? ___slab_alloc+0x507/0x540
[693354.105698] ? cgroup_file_poll+0x60/0x60
[693354.105702] ? 0xffffffff89600000
[693354.105708] ? usercopy_abort+0x90/0x90
[693354.105716] ? mutex_lock+0xef/0x180
[693354.105726] kernfs_fop_write+0x1ab/0x280
[693354.105732] ? cgroup_file_poll+0x60/0x60
[693354.105738] vfs_write+0xe7/0x230
[693354.105744] ksys_write+0xb0/0x140
[693354.105749] ? __ia32_sys_read+0x50/0x50
[693354.105760] do_syscall_64+0x112/0x370
[693354.105766] ? syscall_return_slowpath+0x260/0x260
[693354.105772] ? do_page_fault+0x9b/0x270
[693354.105779] ? prepare_exit_to_usermode+0xf9/0x1a0
[693354.105784] ? enter_from_user_mode+0x30/0x30
[693354.105793] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca

[693354.105875] Allocated by task 1453337:
[693354.106001] kasan_kmalloc+0xa0/0xd0
[693354.106006] kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0x108/0x220
[693354.106010] bfq_pd_alloc+0x96/0x120
[693354.106015] blkcg_activate_policy+0x1b7/0x2b0
[693354.106020] bfq_create_group_hierarchy+0x1e/0x80
[693354.106026] bfq_init_queue+0x678/0x8c0
[693354.106031] blk_mq_init_sched+0x1f8/0x460
[693354.106037] elevator_switch_mq+0xe1/0x240
[693354.106041] elevator_switch+0x25/0x40
[693354.106045] elv_iosched_store+0x1a1/0x230
[693354.106049] queue_attr_store+0x78/0xb0
[693354.106053] kernfs_fop_write+0x1ab/0x280
[693354.106056] vfs_write+0xe7/0x230
[693354.106060] ksys_write+0xb0/0x140
[693354.106064] do_syscall_64+0x112/0x370
[693354.106069] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca

[693354.106114] Freed by task 1453336:
[693354.106225] __kasan_slab_free+0x130/0x180
[693354.106229] kfree+0x90/0x1b0
[693354.106233] blkcg_deactivate_policy+0x12c/0x220
[693354.106238] bfq_exit_queue+0xf5/0x110
[693354.106241] blk_mq_exit_sched+0x104/0x130
[693354.106245] __elevator_exit+0x45/0x60
[693354.106249] elevator_switch_mq+0xd6/0x240
[693354.106253] elevator_switch+0x25/0x40
[693354.106257] elv_iosched_store+0x1a1/0x230
[693354.106261] queue_attr_store+0x78/0xb0
[693354.106264] kernfs_fop_write+0x1ab/0x280
[693354.106268] vfs_write+0xe7/0x230
[693354.106271] ksys_write+0xb0/0x140
[693354.106275] do_syscall_64+0x112/0x370
[693354.106280] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca

[693354.106329] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888be0a35580
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
[693354.106736] The buggy address is located 228 bytes inside of
1024-byte region [ffff888be0a35580, ffff888be0a35980)
[693354.107114] The buggy address belongs to the page:
[693354.107273] page:ffffea002f828c00 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff888107c17080 index:0x0 compound_mapcount: 0
[693354.107606] flags: 0x17ffffc0008100(slab|head)
[693354.107760] raw: 0017ffffc0008100 ffffea002fcbc808 ffffea0030bd3a08 ffff888107c17080
[693354.108020] r
---truncated---

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d12ddd843f1877de1f7dd2aeea4907cf9ff3ac08

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f58d305887ad7b24986d58e881f6806bb81b2bdf

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c2c69e010431b0157c9454adcdd2305809bf9fb

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/858560b27645e7e97aca37ee8f232cccd658fbd2

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