| CVE |
Vendors |
Products |
Updated |
CVSS v3.1 |
| Improper locking in the Intel(R) Integrated Connectivity I/O interface (CNVi) for some Intel(R) Core™ Ultra Processors may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via physical access. |
| In camera driver, there is a possible memory corruption due to improper locking. This could lead to local denial of service in kernel. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/bpf: Fix detecting BPF atomic instructions
Commit 91c960b0056672 ("bpf: Rename BPF_XADD and prepare to encode other
atomics in .imm") converted BPF_XADD to BPF_ATOMIC and added a way to
distinguish instructions based on the immediate field. Existing JIT
implementations were updated to check for the immediate field and to
reject programs utilizing anything more than BPF_ADD (such as BPF_FETCH)
in the immediate field.
However, the check added to powerpc64 JIT did not look at the correct
BPF instruction. Due to this, such programs would be accepted and
incorrectly JIT'ed resulting in soft lockups, as seen with the atomic
bounds test. Fix this by looking at the correct immediate value. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mptcp: fix soft lookup in subflow_error_report()
Maxim reported a soft lookup in subflow_error_report():
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:0]
RIP: 0010:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
RSP: 0018:ffffa859c0003bc0 EFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000101 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff9195c2772d88 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff9195c2772d88
RBP: ffff9195c2772d00 R08: 00000000000067b0 R09: c6e31da9eb1e44f4
R10: ffff9195ef379700 R11: ffff9195edb50710 R12: ffff9195c2772d88
R13: ffff9195f500e3d0 R14: ffff9195ef379700 R15: ffff9195ef379700
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff91961f400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000c000407000 CR3: 0000000002988000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
_raw_spin_lock_bh
subflow_error_report
mptcp_subflow_data_available
__mptcp_move_skbs_from_subflow
mptcp_data_ready
tcp_data_queue
tcp_rcv_established
tcp_v4_do_rcv
tcp_v4_rcv
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu
ip_local_deliver_finish
__netif_receive_skb_one_core
netif_receive_skb
rtl8139_poll 8139too
__napi_poll
net_rx_action
__do_softirq
__irq_exit_rcu
common_interrupt
</IRQ>
The calling function - mptcp_subflow_data_available() - can be invoked
from different contexts:
- plain ssk socket lock
- ssk socket lock + mptcp_data_lock
- ssk socket lock + mptcp_data_lock + msk socket lock.
Since subflow_error_report() tries to acquire the mptcp_data_lock, the
latter two call chains will cause soft lookup.
This change addresses the issue moving the error reporting call to
outer functions, where the held locks list is known and the we can
acquire only the needed one. |
| Improper locking in the Power Management Controller (PMC) for some Intel Chipset firmware before versions pmc_fw_lbg_c1-21ww02a and pmc_fw_lbg_b0-21ww02a may allow a privileged user to potentially enable denial of service via local access. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to avoid potential deadlock in f2fs_record_stop_reason()
syzbot reports deadlock issue of f2fs as below:
======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.12.0-rc3-syzkaller-00087-gc964ced77262 #0 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
kswapd0/79 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff888011824088 (&sbi->sb_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: f2fs_down_write fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2199 [inline]
ffff888011824088 (&sbi->sb_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: f2fs_record_stop_reason+0x52/0x1d0 fs/f2fs/super.c:4068
but task is already holding lock:
ffff88804bd92610 (sb_internal#2){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: f2fs_evict_inode+0x662/0x15c0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:842
which lock already depends on the new lock.
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
-> #2 (sb_internal#2){.+.+}-{0:0}:
lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825
percpu_down_read include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:51 [inline]
__sb_start_write include/linux/fs.h:1716 [inline]
sb_start_intwrite+0x4d/0x1c0 include/linux/fs.h:1899
f2fs_evict_inode+0x662/0x15c0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:842
evict+0x4e8/0x9b0 fs/inode.c:725
f2fs_evict_inode+0x1a4/0x15c0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:807
evict+0x4e8/0x9b0 fs/inode.c:725
dispose_list fs/inode.c:774 [inline]
prune_icache_sb+0x239/0x2f0 fs/inode.c:963
super_cache_scan+0x38c/0x4b0 fs/super.c:223
do_shrink_slab+0x701/0x1160 mm/shrinker.c:435
shrink_slab+0x1093/0x14d0 mm/shrinker.c:662
shrink_one+0x43b/0x850 mm/vmscan.c:4818
shrink_many mm/vmscan.c:4879 [inline]
lru_gen_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:4957 [inline]
shrink_node+0x3799/0x3de0 mm/vmscan.c:5937
kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:6765 [inline]
balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:6957 [inline]
kswapd+0x1ca3/0x3700 mm/vmscan.c:7226
kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
-> #1 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}:
lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825
__fs_reclaim_acquire mm/page_alloc.c:3834 [inline]
fs_reclaim_acquire+0x88/0x130 mm/page_alloc.c:3848
might_alloc include/linux/sched/mm.h:318 [inline]
prepare_alloc_pages+0x147/0x5b0 mm/page_alloc.c:4493
__alloc_pages_noprof+0x16f/0x710 mm/page_alloc.c:4722
alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0x3e8/0x680 mm/mempolicy.c:2265
alloc_pages_noprof mm/mempolicy.c:2345 [inline]
folio_alloc_noprof+0x128/0x180 mm/mempolicy.c:2352
filemap_alloc_folio_noprof+0xdf/0x500 mm/filemap.c:1010
do_read_cache_folio+0x2eb/0x850 mm/filemap.c:3787
read_mapping_folio include/linux/pagemap.h:1011 [inline]
f2fs_commit_super+0x3c0/0x7d0 fs/f2fs/super.c:4032
f2fs_record_stop_reason+0x13b/0x1d0 fs/f2fs/super.c:4079
f2fs_handle_critical_error+0x2ac/0x5c0 fs/f2fs/super.c:4174
f2fs_write_inode+0x35f/0x4d0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:785
write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1503 [inline]
__writeback_single_inode+0x711/0x10d0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1723
writeback_single_inode+0x1f3/0x660 fs/fs-writeback.c:1779
sync_inode_metadata+0xc4/0x120 fs/fs-writeback.c:2849
f2fs_release_file+0xa8/0x100 fs/f2fs/file.c:1941
__fput+0x23f/0x880 fs/file_table.c:431
task_work_run+0x24f/0x310 kernel/task_work.c:228
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:114 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/entry-common.h:328 [inline]
__syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:207 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x168/0x370 kernel/entry/common.c:218
do_syscall_64+0x100/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:89
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
---truncated--- |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tpm: Lock TPM chip in tpm_pm_suspend() first
Setting TPM_CHIP_FLAG_SUSPENDED in the end of tpm_pm_suspend() can be racy
according, as this leaves window for tpm_hwrng_read() to be called while
the operation is in progress. The recent bug report gives also evidence of
this behaviour.
Aadress this by locking the TPM chip before checking any chip->flags both
in tpm_pm_suspend() and tpm_hwrng_read(). Move TPM_CHIP_FLAG_SUSPENDED
check inside tpm_get_random() so that it will be always checked only when
the lock is reserved. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bonding: change ipsec_lock from spin lock to mutex
In the cited commit, bond->ipsec_lock is added to protect ipsec_list,
hence xdo_dev_state_add and xdo_dev_state_delete are called inside
this lock. As ipsec_lock is a spin lock and such xfrmdev ops may sleep,
"scheduling while atomic" will be triggered when changing bond's
active slave.
[ 101.055189] BUG: scheduling while atomic: bash/902/0x00000200
[ 101.055726] Modules linked in:
[ 101.058211] CPU: 3 PID: 902 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4+ #1
[ 101.058760] Hardware name:
[ 101.059434] Call Trace:
[ 101.059436] <TASK>
[ 101.060873] dump_stack_lvl+0x51/0x60
[ 101.061275] __schedule_bug+0x4e/0x60
[ 101.061682] __schedule+0x612/0x7c0
[ 101.062078] ? __mod_timer+0x25c/0x370
[ 101.062486] schedule+0x25/0xd0
[ 101.062845] schedule_timeout+0x77/0xf0
[ 101.063265] ? asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40
[ 101.063724] ? __bpf_trace_itimer_state+0x10/0x10
[ 101.064215] __wait_for_common+0x87/0x190
[ 101.064648] ? usleep_range_state+0x90/0x90
[ 101.065091] cmd_exec+0x437/0xb20 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.065569] mlx5_cmd_do+0x1e/0x40 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.066051] mlx5_cmd_exec+0x18/0x30 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.066552] mlx5_crypto_create_dek_key+0xea/0x120 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.067163] ? bonding_sysfs_store_option+0x4d/0x80 [bonding]
[ 101.067738] ? kmalloc_trace+0x4d/0x350
[ 101.068156] mlx5_ipsec_create_sa_ctx+0x33/0x100 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.068747] mlx5e_xfrm_add_state+0x47b/0xaa0 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.069312] bond_change_active_slave+0x392/0x900 [bonding]
[ 101.069868] bond_option_active_slave_set+0x1c2/0x240 [bonding]
[ 101.070454] __bond_opt_set+0xa6/0x430 [bonding]
[ 101.070935] __bond_opt_set_notify+0x2f/0x90 [bonding]
[ 101.071453] bond_opt_tryset_rtnl+0x72/0xb0 [bonding]
[ 101.071965] bonding_sysfs_store_option+0x4d/0x80 [bonding]
[ 101.072567] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x10c/0x1a0
[ 101.073033] vfs_write+0x2d8/0x400
[ 101.073416] ? alloc_fd+0x48/0x180
[ 101.073798] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
[ 101.074175] do_syscall_64+0x52/0x110
[ 101.074576] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
As bond_ipsec_add_sa_all and bond_ipsec_del_sa_all are only called
from bond_change_active_slave, which requires holding the RTNL lock.
And bond_ipsec_add_sa and bond_ipsec_del_sa are xfrm state
xdo_dev_state_add and xdo_dev_state_delete APIs, which are in user
context. So ipsec_lock doesn't have to be spin lock, change it to
mutex, and thus the above issue can be resolved. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial: sc16is7xx: fix TX fifo corruption
Sometimes, when a packet is received on channel A at almost the same time
as a packet is about to be transmitted on channel B, we observe with a
logic analyzer that the received packet on channel A is transmitted on
channel B. In other words, the Tx buffer data on channel B is corrupted
with data from channel A.
The problem appeared since commit 4409df5866b7 ("serial: sc16is7xx: change
EFR lock to operate on each channels"), which changed the EFR locking to
operate on each channel instead of chip-wise.
This commit has introduced a regression, because the EFR lock is used not
only to protect the EFR registers access, but also, in a very obscure and
undocumented way, to protect access to the data buffer, which is shared by
the Tx and Rx handlers, but also by each channel of the IC.
Fix this regression first by switching to kfifo_out_linear_ptr() in
sc16is7xx_handle_tx() to eliminate the need for a shared Rx/Tx buffer.
Secondly, replace the chip-wise Rx buffer with a separate Rx buffer for
each channel. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md/raid5: fix deadlock that raid5d() wait for itself to clear MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING
Xiao reported that lvm2 test lvconvert-raid-takeover.sh can hang with
small possibility, the root cause is exactly the same as commit
bed9e27baf52 ("Revert "md/raid5: Wait for MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING in raid5d"")
However, Dan reported another hang after that, and junxiao investigated
the problem and found out that this is caused by plugged bio can't issue
from raid5d().
Current implementation in raid5d() has a weird dependence:
1) md_check_recovery() from raid5d() must hold 'reconfig_mutex' to clear
MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING;
2) raid5d() handles IO in a deadloop, until all IO are issued;
3) IO from raid5d() must wait for MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING to be cleared;
This behaviour is introduce before v2.6, and for consequence, if other
context hold 'reconfig_mutex', and md_check_recovery() can't update
super_block, then raid5d() will waste one cpu 100% by the deadloop, until
'reconfig_mutex' is released.
Refer to the implementation from raid1 and raid10, fix this problem by
skipping issue IO if MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING is still set after
md_check_recovery(), daemon thread will be woken up when 'reconfig_mutex'
is released. Meanwhile, the hang problem will be fixed as well. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
soc: fsl: qbman: Always disable interrupts when taking cgr_lock
smp_call_function_single disables IRQs when executing the callback. To
prevent deadlocks, we must disable IRQs when taking cgr_lock elsewhere.
This is already done by qman_update_cgr and qman_delete_cgr; fix the
other lockers. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: release mutex after nft_gc_seq_end from abort path
The commit mutex should not be released during the critical section
between nft_gc_seq_begin() and nft_gc_seq_end(), otherwise, async GC
worker could collect expired objects and get the released commit lock
within the same GC sequence.
nf_tables_module_autoload() temporarily releases the mutex to load
module dependencies, then it goes back to replay the transaction again.
Move it at the end of the abort phase after nft_gc_seq_end() is called. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
inet: read sk->sk_family once in inet_recv_error()
inet_recv_error() is called without holding the socket lock.
IPv6 socket could mutate to IPv4 with IPV6_ADDRFORM
socket option and trigger a KCSAN warning. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: mark set as dead when unbinding anonymous set with timeout
While the rhashtable set gc runs asynchronously, a race allows it to
collect elements from anonymous sets with timeouts while it is being
released from the commit path.
Mingi Cho originally reported this issue in a different path in 6.1.x
with a pipapo set with low timeouts which is not possible upstream since
7395dfacfff6 ("netfilter: nf_tables: use timestamp to check for set
element timeout").
Fix this by setting on the dead flag for anonymous sets to skip async gc
in this case.
According to 08e4c8c5919f ("netfilter: nf_tables: mark newset as dead on
transaction abort"), Florian plans to accelerate abort path by releasing
objects via workqueue, therefore, this sets on the dead flag for abort
path too. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: fix RELEASE_LOCKOWNER
The test on so_count in nfsd4_release_lockowner() is nonsense and
harmful. Revert to using check_for_locks(), changing that to not sleep.
First: harmful.
As is documented in the kdoc comment for nfsd4_release_lockowner(), the
test on so_count can transiently return a false positive resulting in a
return of NFS4ERR_LOCKS_HELD when in fact no locks are held. This is
clearly a protocol violation and with the Linux NFS client it can cause
incorrect behaviour.
If RELEASE_LOCKOWNER is sent while some other thread is still
processing a LOCK request which failed because, at the time that request
was received, the given owner held a conflicting lock, then the nfsd
thread processing that LOCK request can hold a reference (conflock) to
the lock owner that causes nfsd4_release_lockowner() to return an
incorrect error.
The Linux NFS client ignores that NFS4ERR_LOCKS_HELD error because it
never sends NFS4_RELEASE_LOCKOWNER without first releasing any locks, so
it knows that the error is impossible. It assumes the lock owner was in
fact released so it feels free to use the same lock owner identifier in
some later locking request.
When it does reuse a lock owner identifier for which a previous RELEASE
failed, it will naturally use a lock_seqid of zero. However the server,
which didn't release the lock owner, will expect a larger lock_seqid and
so will respond with NFS4ERR_BAD_SEQID.
So clearly it is harmful to allow a false positive, which testing
so_count allows.
The test is nonsense because ... well... it doesn't mean anything.
so_count is the sum of three different counts.
1/ the set of states listed on so_stateids
2/ the set of active vfs locks owned by any of those states
3/ various transient counts such as for conflicting locks.
When it is tested against '2' it is clear that one of these is the
transient reference obtained by find_lockowner_str_locked(). It is not
clear what the other one is expected to be.
In practice, the count is often 2 because there is precisely one state
on so_stateids. If there were more, this would fail.
In my testing I see two circumstances when RELEASE_LOCKOWNER is called.
In one case, CLOSE is called before RELEASE_LOCKOWNER. That results in
all the lock states being removed, and so the lockowner being discarded
(it is removed when there are no more references which usually happens
when the lock state is discarded). When nfsd4_release_lockowner() finds
that the lock owner doesn't exist, it returns success.
The other case shows an so_count of '2' and precisely one state listed
in so_stateid. It appears that the Linux client uses a separate lock
owner for each file resulting in one lock state per lock owner, so this
test on '2' is safe. For another client it might not be safe.
So this patch changes check_for_locks() to use the (newish)
find_any_file_locked() so that it doesn't take a reference on the
nfs4_file and so never calls nfsd_file_put(), and so never sleeps. With
this check is it safe to restore the use of check_for_locks() rather
than testing so_count against the mysterious '2'. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI/ASPM: Fix deadlock when enabling ASPM
A last minute revert in 6.7-final introduced a potential deadlock when
enabling ASPM during probe of Qualcomm PCIe controllers as reported by
lockdep:
============================================
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
6.7.0 #40 Not tainted
--------------------------------------------
kworker/u16:5/90 is trying to acquire lock:
ffffacfa78ced000 (pci_bus_sem){++++}-{3:3}, at: pcie_aspm_pm_state_change+0x58/0xdc
but task is already holding lock:
ffffacfa78ced000 (pci_bus_sem){++++}-{3:3}, at: pci_walk_bus+0x34/0xbc
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(pci_bus_sem);
lock(pci_bus_sem);
*** DEADLOCK ***
Call trace:
print_deadlock_bug+0x25c/0x348
__lock_acquire+0x10a4/0x2064
lock_acquire+0x1e8/0x318
down_read+0x60/0x184
pcie_aspm_pm_state_change+0x58/0xdc
pci_set_full_power_state+0xa8/0x114
pci_set_power_state+0xc4/0x120
qcom_pcie_enable_aspm+0x1c/0x3c [pcie_qcom]
pci_walk_bus+0x64/0xbc
qcom_pcie_host_post_init_2_7_0+0x28/0x34 [pcie_qcom]
The deadlock can easily be reproduced on machines like the Lenovo ThinkPad
X13s by adding a delay to increase the race window during asynchronous
probe where another thread can take a write lock.
Add a new pci_set_power_state_locked() and associated helper functions that
can be called with the PCI bus semaphore held to avoid taking the read lock
twice. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: nfc: llcp: Add lock when modifying device list
The device list needs its associated lock held when modifying it, or the
list could become corrupted, as syzbot discovered. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mptcp: fix sleep in atomic at close time
Matt reported a splat at msk close time:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/mptcp/protocol.c:2877
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 155, name: packetdrill
preempt_count: 201, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
4 locks held by packetdrill/155:
#0: ffff888001536990 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#6){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __sock_release (net/socket.c:650)
#1: ffff88800b498130 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2973)
#2: ffff88800b49a130 (sk_lock-AF_INET/1){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: __mptcp_close_ssk (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2363)
#3: ffff88800b49a0b0 (slock-AF_INET){+...}-{2:2}, at: __lock_sock_fast (include/net/sock.h:1820)
Preemption disabled at:
0x0
CPU: 1 PID: 155 Comm: packetdrill Not tainted 6.1.0-rc5 #365
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:107 (discriminator 4))
__might_resched.cold (kernel/sched/core.c:9891)
__mptcp_destroy_sock (include/linux/kernel.h:110)
__mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2959)
mptcp_subflow_queue_clean (include/net/sock.h:1777)
__mptcp_close_ssk (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2363)
mptcp_destroy_common (net/mptcp/protocol.c:3170)
mptcp_destroy (include/net/sock.h:1495)
__mptcp_destroy_sock (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2886)
__mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2959)
mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2974)
inet_release (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:432)
__sock_release (net/socket.c:651)
sock_close (net/socket.c:1367)
__fput (fs/file_table.c:320)
task_work_run (kernel/task_work.c:181 (discriminator 1))
exit_to_user_mode_prepare (include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49)
syscall_exit_to_user_mode (kernel/entry/common.c:130)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:87)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120)
We can't call mptcp_close under the 'fast' socket lock variant, replace
it with a sock_lock_nested() as the relevant code is already under the
listening msk socket lock protection. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
audit: improve robustness of the audit queue handling
If the audit daemon were ever to get stuck in a stopped state the
kernel's kauditd_thread() could get blocked attempting to send audit
records to the userspace audit daemon. With the kernel thread
blocked it is possible that the audit queue could grow unbounded as
certain audit record generating events must be exempt from the queue
limits else the system enter a deadlock state.
This patch resolves this problem by lowering the kernel thread's
socket sending timeout from MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT to HZ/10 and tweaks
the kauditd_send_queue() function to better manage the various audit
queues when connection problems occur between the kernel and the
audit daemon. With this patch, the backlog may temporarily grow
beyond the defined limits when the audit daemon is stopped and the
system is under heavy audit pressure, but kauditd_thread() will
continue to make progress and drain the queues as it would for other
connection problems. For example, with the audit daemon put into a
stopped state and the system configured to audit every syscall it
was still possible to shutdown the system without a kernel panic,
deadlock, etc.; granted, the system was slow to shutdown but that is
to be expected given the extreme pressure of recording every syscall.
The timeout value of HZ/10 was chosen primarily through
experimentation and this developer's "gut feeling". There is likely
no one perfect value, but as this scenario is limited in scope (root
privileges would be needed to send SIGSTOP to the audit daemon), it
is likely not worth exposing this as a tunable at present. This can
always be done at a later date if it proves necessary. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/qeth: fix deadlock during failing recovery
Commit 0b9902c1fcc5 ("s390/qeth: fix deadlock during recovery") removed
taking discipline_mutex inside qeth_do_reset(), fixing potential
deadlocks. An error path was missed though, that still takes
discipline_mutex and thus has the original deadlock potential.
Intermittent deadlocks were seen when a qeth channel path is configured
offline, causing a race between qeth_do_reset and ccwgroup_remove.
Call qeth_set_offline() directly in the qeth_do_reset() error case and
then a new variant of ccwgroup_set_offline(), without taking
discipline_mutex. |
