Vulnerability CVE-2024-35795

Vulnerability CVE-2024-35795

Published: 2024-05-17

Description:

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

drm/amdgpu: fix deadlock while reading mqd from debugfs

An errant disk backup on my desktop got into debugfs and triggered the
following deadlock scenario in the amdgpu debugfs files. The machine
also hard-resets immediately after those lines are printed (although I
wasn't able to reproduce that part when reading by hand):

[ 1318.016074][ T1082] ======================================================
[ 1318.016607][ T1082] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[ 1318.017107][ T1082] 6.8.0-rc7-00015-ge0c8221b72c0 #17 Not tainted
[ 1318.017598][ T1082] ------------------------------------------------------
[ 1318.018096][ T1082] tar/1082 is trying to acquire lock:
[ 1318.018585][ T1082] ffff98c44175d6a0 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: __might_fault+0x40/0x80
[ 1318.019084][ T1082]
[ 1318.019084][ T1082] but task is already holding lock:
[ 1318.020052][ T1082] ffff98c4c13f55f8 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: amdgpu_debugfs_mqd_read+0x6a/0x250 [amdgpu]
[ 1318.020607][ T1082]
[ 1318.020607][ T1082] which lock already depends on the new lock.
[ 1318.020607][ T1082]
[ 1318.022081][ T1082]
[ 1318.022081][ T1082] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[ 1318.023083][ T1082]
[ 1318.023083][ T1082] -> #2 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}:
[ 1318.024114][ T1082] __ww_mutex_lock.constprop.0+0xe0/0x12f0
[ 1318.024639][ T1082] ww_mutex_lock+0x32/0x90
[ 1318.025161][ T1082] dma_resv_lockdep+0x18a/0x330
[ 1318.025683][ T1082] do_one_initcall+0x6a/0x350
[ 1318.026210][ T1082] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a3/0x310
[ 1318.026728][ T1082] kernel_init+0x15/0x1a0
[ 1318.027242][ T1082] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40
[ 1318.027759][ T1082] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
[ 1318.028281][ T1082]
[ 1318.028281][ T1082] -> #1 (reservation_ww_class_acquire){+.+.}-{0:0}:
[ 1318.029297][ T1082] dma_resv_lockdep+0x16c/0x330
[ 1318.029790][ T1082] do_one_initcall+0x6a/0x350
[ 1318.030263][ T1082] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a3/0x310
[ 1318.030722][ T1082] kernel_init+0x15/0x1a0
[ 1318.031168][ T1082] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40
[ 1318.031598][ T1082] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
[ 1318.032011][ T1082]
[ 1318.032011][ T1082] -> #0 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}:
[ 1318.032778][ T1082] __lock_acquire+0x14bf/0x2680
[ 1318.033141][ T1082] lock_acquire+0xcd/0x2c0
[ 1318.033487][ T1082] __might_fault+0x58/0x80
[ 1318.033814][ T1082] amdgpu_debugfs_mqd_read+0x103/0x250 [amdgpu]
[ 1318.034181][ T1082] full_proxy_read+0x55/0x80
[ 1318.034487][ T1082] vfs_read+0xa7/0x360
[ 1318.034788][ T1082] ksys_read+0x70/0xf0
[ 1318.035085][ T1082] do_syscall_64+0x94/0x180
[ 1318.035375][ T1082] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0x4e
[ 1318.035664][ T1082]
[ 1318.035664][ T1082] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 1318.035664][ T1082]
[ 1318.036487][ T1082] Chain exists of:
[ 1318.036487][ T1082] &mm->mmap_lock --> reservation_ww_class_acquire --> reservation_ww_class_mutex
[ 1318.036487][ T1082]
[ 1318.037310][ T1082] Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[ 1318.037310][ T1082]
[ 1318.037838][ T1082] CPU0 CPU1
[ 1318.038101][ T1082] ---- ----
[ 1318.038350][ T1082] lock(reservation_ww_class_mutex);
[ 1318.038590][ T1082] lock(reservation_ww_class_acquire);
[ 1318.038839][ T1082] lock(reservation_ww_class_mutex);
[ 1318.039083][ T1082] rlock(&mm->mmap_lock);
[ 1318.039328][ T1082]
[ 1318.039328][ T1082] * DEADLOCK *
[ 1318.039328][ T1082]
[ 1318.040029][ T1082] 1 lock held by tar/1082:
[ 1318.040259][ T1082] #0: ffff98c4c13f55f8 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: amdgpu_debugfs_mqd_read+0x6a/0x250 [amdgpu]
[ 1318.040560][ T1082]
[ 1318.040560][ T1082] stack backtrace:
[
---truncated---

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/197f6d6987c55860f6eea1c93e4f800c59078874

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b03556da6e576c62664b6cd01809e4a09d53b5b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4687e3c6ee877ee25e57b984eca00be53b9a8db5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8678b1060ae2b75feb60b87e5b75e17374e3c1c5

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