Vulnerability CVE-2021-47493

Vulnerability CVE-2021-47493

Published: 2024-05-22

Description:

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

ocfs2: fix race between searching chunks and release journal_head from buffer_head

Encountered a race between ocfs2_test_bg_bit_allocatable() and
jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() resulting in the below vmcore.

PID: 106879 TASK: ffff880244ba9c00 CPU: 2 COMMAND: "loop3"
Call trace:
panic
oops_end
no_context
__bad_area_nosemaphore
bad_area_nosemaphore
__do_page_fault
do_page_fault
page_fault
[exception RIP: ocfs2_block_group_find_clear_bits+316]
ocfs2_block_group_find_clear_bits [ocfs2]
ocfs2_cluster_group_search [ocfs2]
ocfs2_search_chain [ocfs2]
ocfs2_claim_suballoc_bits [ocfs2]
__ocfs2_claim_clusters [ocfs2]
ocfs2_claim_clusters [ocfs2]
ocfs2_local_alloc_slide_window [ocfs2]
ocfs2_reserve_local_alloc_bits [ocfs2]
ocfs2_reserve_clusters_with_limit [ocfs2]
ocfs2_reserve_clusters [ocfs2]
ocfs2_lock_refcount_allocators [ocfs2]
ocfs2_make_clusters_writable [ocfs2]
ocfs2_replace_cow [ocfs2]
ocfs2_refcount_cow [ocfs2]
ocfs2_file_write_iter [ocfs2]
lo_rw_aio
loop_queue_work
kthread_worker_fn
kthread
ret_from_fork

When ocfs2_test_bg_bit_allocatable() called bh2jh(bg_bh), the
bg_bh->b_private NULL as jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() raced and
released the jounal head from the buffer head. Needed to take bit lock
for the bit 'BH_JournalHead' to fix this race.

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5043fbd294f5909a080ade0f04b70a4da9e122b7

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e382600e8856ea654677b5134ee66e03ea72bc2

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f1b228529ae49b0f85ab89bcdb6c365df401558

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