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CVSS v3.1 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX
When sysctl_nr_open is set to a very high value (for example, 1073741816
as set by systemd), processes attempting to use file descriptors near
the limit can trigger massive memory allocation attempts that exceed
INT_MAX, resulting in a WARNING in mm/slub.c:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 44 at mm/slub.c:5027 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x21a/0x288
This happens because kvmalloc_array() and kvmalloc() check if the
requested size exceeds INT_MAX and emit a warning when the allocation is
not flagged with __GFP_NOWARN.
Specifically, when nr_open is set to 1073741816 (0x3ffffff8) and a
process calls dup2(oldfd, 1073741880), the kernel attempts to allocate:
- File descriptor array: 1073741880 * 8 bytes = 8,589,935,040 bytes
- Multiple bitmaps: ~400MB
- Total allocation size: > 8GB (exceeding INT_MAX = 2,147,483,647)
Reproducer:
1. Set /proc/sys/fs/nr_open to 1073741816:
# echo 1073741816 > /proc/sys/fs/nr_open
2. Run a program that uses a high file descriptor:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>
int main() {
struct rlimit rlim = {1073741824, 1073741824};
setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rlim);
dup2(2, 1073741880); // Triggers the warning
return 0;
}
3. Observe WARNING in dmesg at mm/slub.c:5027
systemd commit a8b627a introduced automatic bumping of fs.nr_open to the
maximum possible value. The rationale was that systems with memory
control groups (memcg) no longer need separate file descriptor limits
since memory is properly accounted. However, this change overlooked
that:
1. The kernel's allocation functions still enforce INT_MAX as a maximum
size regardless of memcg accounting
2. Programs and tests that legitimately test file descriptor limits can
inadvertently trigger massive allocations
3. The resulting allocations (>8GB) are impractical and will always fail
systemd's algorithm starts with INT_MAX and keeps halving the value
until the kernel accepts it. On most systems, this results in nr_open
being set to 1073741816 (0x3ffffff8), which is just under 1GB of file
descriptors.
While processes rarely use file descriptors near this limit in normal
operation, certain selftests (like
tools/testing/selftests/core/unshare_test.c) and programs that test file
descriptor limits can trigger this issue.
Fix this by adding a check in alloc_fdtable() to ensure the requested
allocation size does not exceed INT_MAX. This causes the operation to
fail with -EMFILE instead of triggering a kernel warning and avoids the
impractical >8GB memory allocation request. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/smaps: fix race between smaps_hugetlb_range and migration
smaps_hugetlb_range() handles the pte without holdling ptl, and may be
concurrenct with migration, leaing to BUG_ON in pfn_swap_entry_to_page().
The race is as follows.
smaps_hugetlb_range migrate_pages
huge_ptep_get
remove_migration_ptes
folio_unlock
pfn_swap_entry_folio
BUG_ON
To fix it, hold ptl lock in smaps_hugetlb_range(). |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gfs2: Set .migrate_folio in gfs2_{rgrp,meta}_aops
Clears up the warning added in 7ee3647243e5 ("migrate: Remove call to
->writepage") that occurs in various xfstests, causing "something found
in dmesg" failures.
[ 341.136573] gfs2_meta_aops does not implement migrate_folio
[ 341.136953] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 36 at mm/migrate.c:944 move_to_new_folio+0x2f8/0x300 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ARM: rockchip: fix kernel hang during smp initialization
In order to bring up secondary CPUs main CPU write trampoline
code to SRAM. The trampoline code is written while secondary
CPUs are powered on (at least that true for RK3188 CPU).
Sometimes that leads to kernel hang. Probably because secondary
CPU execute trampoline code while kernel doesn't expect.
The patch moves SRAM initialization step to the point where all
secondary CPUs are powered down.
That fixes rarely hangs on RK3188:
[ 0.091568] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
[ 0.091996] rockchip_smp_prepare_cpus: ncores 4 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: hda/ca0132: Fix buffer overflow in add_tuning_control
The 'sprintf' call in 'add_tuning_control' may exceed the 44-byte
buffer if either string argument is too long. This triggers a compiler
warning.
Replaced 'sprintf' with 'snprintf' to limit string lengths to prevent
overflow. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath12k: Correct tid cleanup when tid setup fails
Currently, if any error occurs during ath12k_dp_rx_peer_tid_setup(),
the tid value is already incremented, even though the corresponding
TID is not actually allocated. Proceed to
ath12k_dp_rx_peer_tid_delete() starting from unallocated tid,
which might leads to freeing unallocated TID and cause potential
crash or out-of-bounds access.
Hence, fix by correctly decrementing tid before cleanup to match only
the successfully allocated TIDs.
Also, remove tid-- from failure case of ath12k_dp_rx_peer_frag_setup(),
as decrementing the tid before cleanup in loop will take care of this.
Compile tested only. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rcu: Protect ->defer_qs_iw_pending from data race
On kernels built with CONFIG_IRQ_WORK=y, when rcu_read_unlock() is
invoked within an interrupts-disabled region of code [1], it will invoke
rcu_read_unlock_special(), which uses an irq-work handler to force the
system to notice when the RCU read-side critical section actually ends.
That end won't happen until interrupts are enabled at the soonest.
In some kernels, such as those booted with rcutree.use_softirq=y, the
irq-work handler is used unconditionally.
The per-CPU rcu_data structure's ->defer_qs_iw_pending field is
updated by the irq-work handler and is both read and updated by
rcu_read_unlock_special(). This resulted in the following KCSAN splat:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler / rcu_read_unlock_special
read to 0xffff96b95f42d8d8 of 1 bytes by task 90 on cpu 8:
rcu_read_unlock_special+0x175/0x260
__rcu_read_unlock+0x92/0xa0
rt_spin_unlock+0x9b/0xc0
__local_bh_enable+0x10d/0x170
__local_bh_enable_ip+0xfb/0x150
rcu_do_batch+0x595/0xc40
rcu_cpu_kthread+0x4e9/0x830
smpboot_thread_fn+0x24d/0x3b0
kthread+0x3bd/0x410
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
write to 0xffff96b95f42d8d8 of 1 bytes by task 88 on cpu 8:
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler+0x1e/0x30
irq_work_single+0xaf/0x160
run_irq_workd+0x91/0xc0
smpboot_thread_fn+0x24d/0x3b0
kthread+0x3bd/0x410
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
no locks held by irq_work/8/88.
irq event stamp: 200272
hardirqs last enabled at (200272): [<ffffffffb0f56121>] finish_task_switch+0x131/0x320
hardirqs last disabled at (200271): [<ffffffffb25c7859>] __schedule+0x129/0xd70
softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffffffb0ee093f>] copy_process+0x4df/0x1cc0
softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The problem is that irq-work handlers run with interrupts enabled, which
means that rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler() could be interrupted,
and that interrupt handler might contain an RCU read-side critical
section, which might invoke rcu_read_unlock_special(). In the strict
KCSAN mode of operation used by RCU, this constitutes a data race on
the ->defer_qs_iw_pending field.
This commit therefore disables interrupts across the portion of the
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler() that updates the ->defer_qs_iw_pending
field. This suffices because this handler is not a fast path. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Forget ranges when refining tnum after JSET
Syzbot reported a kernel warning due to a range invariant violation on
the following BPF program.
0: call bpf_get_netns_cookie
1: if r0 == 0 goto <exit>
2: if r0 & Oxffffffff goto <exit>
The issue is on the path where we fall through both jumps.
That path is unreachable at runtime: after insn 1, we know r0 != 0, but
with the sign extension on the jset, we would only fallthrough insn 2
if r0 == 0. Unfortunately, is_branch_taken() isn't currently able to
figure this out, so the verifier walks all branches. The verifier then
refines the register bounds using the second condition and we end
up with inconsistent bounds on this unreachable path:
1: if r0 == 0 goto <exit>
r0: u64=[0x1, 0xffffffffffffffff] var_off=(0, 0xffffffffffffffff)
2: if r0 & 0xffffffff goto <exit>
r0 before reg_bounds_sync: u64=[0x1, 0xffffffffffffffff] var_off=(0, 0)
r0 after reg_bounds_sync: u64=[0x1, 0] var_off=(0, 0)
Improving the range refinement for JSET to cover all cases is tricky. We
also don't expect many users to rely on JSET given LLVM doesn't generate
those instructions. So instead of improving the range refinement for
JSETs, Eduard suggested we forget the ranges whenever we're narrowing
tnums after a JSET. This patch implements that approach. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm: Add error handling for krealloc in metadata setup
Function msm_ioctl_gem_info_set_metadata() now checks for krealloc
failure and returns -ENOMEM, avoiding potential NULL pointer dereference.
Explicitly avoids __GFP_NOFAIL due to deadlock risks and allocation constraints.
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/661235/ |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath10k: shutdown driver when hardware is unreliable
In rare cases, ath10k may lose connection with the PCIe bus due to
some unknown reasons, which could further lead to system crashes during
resuming due to watchdog timeout:
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi command 20486 timeout, restarting hardware
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: already restarting
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to stop WMI vdev 0: -11
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to stop vdev 0: -11
ieee80211 phy0: PM: **** DPM device timeout ****
Call Trace:
panic+0x125/0x315
dpm_watchdog_set+0x54/0x54
dpm_watchdog_handler+0x57/0x57
call_timer_fn+0x31/0x13c
At this point, all WMI commands will timeout and attempt to restart
device. So set a threshold for consecutive restart failures. If the
threshold is exceeded, consider the hardware is unreliable and all
ath10k operations should be skipped to avoid system crash.
fail_cont_count and pending_recovery are atomic variables, and
do not involve complex conditional logic. Therefore, even if recovery
check and reconfig complete are executed concurrently, the recovery
mechanism will not be broken.
Tested-on: QCA6174 hw3.2 PCI WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00288-QCARMSWPZ-1 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rcutorture: Fix rcutorture_one_extend_check() splat in RT kernels
For built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels, running rcutorture
tests resulted in the following splat:
[ 68.797425] rcutorture_one_extend_check during change: Current 0x1 To add 0x1 To remove 0x0 preempt_count() 0x0
[ 68.797533] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 512 at kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:1993 rcutorture_one_extend_check+0x419/0x560 [rcutorture]
[ 68.797601] Call Trace:
[ 68.797602] <TASK>
[ 68.797619] ? lockdep_softirqs_off+0xa5/0x160
[ 68.797631] rcutorture_one_extend+0x18e/0xcc0 [rcutorture 2466dbd2ff34dbaa36049cb323a80c3306ac997c]
[ 68.797646] ? local_clock+0x19/0x40
[ 68.797659] rcu_torture_one_read+0xf0/0x280 [rcutorture 2466dbd2ff34dbaa36049cb323a80c3306ac997c]
[ 68.797678] ? __pfx_rcu_torture_one_read+0x10/0x10 [rcutorture 2466dbd2ff34dbaa36049cb323a80c3306ac997c]
[ 68.797804] ? __pfx_rcu_torture_timer+0x10/0x10 [rcutorture 2466dbd2ff34dbaa36049cb323a80c3306ac997c]
[ 68.797815] rcu-torture: rcu_torture_reader task started
[ 68.797824] rcu-torture: Creating rcu_torture_reader task
[ 68.797824] rcu_torture_reader+0x238/0x580 [rcutorture 2466dbd2ff34dbaa36049cb323a80c3306ac997c]
[ 68.797836] ? kvm_sched_clock_read+0x15/0x30
Disable BH does not change the SOFTIRQ corresponding bits in
preempt_count() for RT kernels, this commit therefore use
softirq_count() to check the if BH is disabled. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rcu: Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to IRQ work
During rcu_read_unlock_special(), if this happens during irq_exit(), we
can lockup if an IPI is issued. This is because the IPI itself triggers
the irq_exit() path causing a recursive lock up.
This is precisely what Xiongfeng found when invoking a BPF program on
the trace_tick_stop() tracepoint As shown in the trace below. Fix by
managing the irq_work state correctly.
irq_exit()
__irq_exit_rcu()
/* in_hardirq() returns false after this */
preempt_count_sub(HARDIRQ_OFFSET)
tick_irq_exit()
tick_nohz_irq_exit()
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
trace_tick_stop() /* a bpf prog is hooked on this trace point */
__bpf_trace_tick_stop()
bpf_trace_run2()
rcu_read_unlock_special()
/* will send a IPI to itself */
irq_work_queue_on(&rdp->defer_qs_iw, rdp->cpu);
A simple reproducer can also be obtained by doing the following in
tick_irq_exit(). It will hang on boot without the patch:
static inline void tick_irq_exit(void)
{
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ WRITE_ONCE(current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs, true);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
[neeraj: Apply Frederic's suggested fix for PREEMPT_RT] |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: truncate good inode pages when hard link is 0
The fileset value of the inode copy from the disk by the reproducer is
AGGR_RESERVED_I. When executing evict, its hard link number is 0, so its
inode pages are not truncated. This causes the bugon to be triggered when
executing clear_inode() because nrpages is greater than 0. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA: hfi1: fix possible divide-by-zero in find_hw_thread_mask()
The function divides number of online CPUs by num_core_siblings, and
later checks the divider by zero. This implies a possibility to get
and divide-by-zero runtime error. Fix it by moving the check prior to
division. This also helps to save one indentation level. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/xe/migrate: don't overflow max copy size
With non-page aligned copy, we need to use 4 byte aligned pitch, however
the size itself might still be close to our maximum of ~8M, and so the
dimensions of the copy can easily exceed the S16_MAX limit of the copy
command leading to the following assert:
xe 0000:03:00.0: [drm] Assertion `size / pitch <= ((s16)(((u16)~0U) >> 1))` failed!
platform: BATTLEMAGE subplatform: 1
graphics: Xe2_HPG 20.01 step A0
media: Xe2_HPM 13.01 step A1
tile: 0 VRAM 10.0 GiB
GT: 0 type 1
WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 10605 at drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_migrate.c:673 emit_copy+0x4b5/0x4e0 [xe]
To fix this account for the pitch when calculating the number of current
bytes to copy.
(cherry picked from commit 8c2d61e0e916e077fda7e7b8e67f25ffe0f361fc) |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/xe/migrate: prevent potential UAF
If we hit the error path, the previous fence (if there is one) has
already been put() prior to this, so doing a fence_wait could lead to
UAF. Tweak the flow to do to the put() until after we do the wait.
(cherry picked from commit 9b7ca35ed28fe5fad86e9d9c24ebd1271e4c9c3e) |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: Add SM6115 MDSS compatible
Add the SM6115 MDSS compatible to clients compatible list, as it also
needs that workaround.
Without this workaround, for example, QRB4210 RB2 which is based on
SM4250/SM6115 generates a lot of smmu unhandled context faults during
boot:
arm_smmu_context_fault: 116854 callbacks suppressed
arm-smmu c600000.iommu: Unhandled context fault: fsr=0x402,
iova=0x5c0ec600, fsynr=0x320021, cbfrsynra=0x420, cb=5
arm-smmu c600000.iommu: FSR = 00000402 [Format=2 TF], SID=0x420
arm-smmu c600000.iommu: FSYNR0 = 00320021 [S1CBNDX=50 PNU PLVL=1]
arm-smmu c600000.iommu: Unhandled context fault: fsr=0x402,
iova=0x5c0d7800, fsynr=0x320021, cbfrsynra=0x420, cb=5
arm-smmu c600000.iommu: FSR = 00000402 [Format=2 TF], SID=0x420
and also failed initialisation of lontium lt9611uxc, gpu and dpu is
observed:
(binding MDSS components triggered by lt9611uxc have failed)
------------[ cut here ]------------
!aspace
WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 324 at drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_vma.c:130 msm_gem_vma_init+0x150/0x18c [msm]
Modules linked in: ... (long list of modules)
CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 324 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.15.0-03037-gaacc73ceeb8b #4 PREEMPT
Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. QRB4210 RB2 (DT)
pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : msm_gem_vma_init+0x150/0x18c [msm]
lr : msm_gem_vma_init+0x150/0x18c [msm]
sp : ffff80008144b280
...
Call trace:
msm_gem_vma_init+0x150/0x18c [msm] (P)
get_vma_locked+0xc0/0x194 [msm]
msm_gem_get_and_pin_iova_range+0x4c/0xdc [msm]
msm_gem_kernel_new+0x48/0x160 [msm]
msm_gpu_init+0x34c/0x53c [msm]
adreno_gpu_init+0x1b0/0x2d8 [msm]
a6xx_gpu_init+0x1e8/0x9e0 [msm]
adreno_bind+0x2b8/0x348 [msm]
component_bind_all+0x100/0x230
msm_drm_bind+0x13c/0x3d0 [msm]
try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device+0x164/0x1d0
__component_add+0xa4/0x174
component_add+0x14/0x20
dsi_dev_attach+0x20/0x34 [msm]
dsi_host_attach+0x58/0x98 [msm]
devm_mipi_dsi_attach+0x34/0x90
lt9611uxc_attach_dsi.isra.0+0x94/0x124 [lontium_lt9611uxc]
lt9611uxc_probe+0x540/0x5fc [lontium_lt9611uxc]
i2c_device_probe+0x148/0x2a8
really_probe+0xbc/0x2c0
__driver_probe_device+0x78/0x120
driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x154
__driver_attach+0x90/0x1a0
bus_for_each_dev+0x68/0xb8
driver_attach+0x24/0x30
bus_add_driver+0xe4/0x208
driver_register+0x68/0x124
i2c_register_driver+0x48/0xcc
lt9611uxc_driver_init+0x20/0x1000 [lontium_lt9611uxc]
do_one_initcall+0x60/0x1d4
do_init_module+0x54/0x1fc
load_module+0x1748/0x1c8c
init_module_from_file+0x74/0xa0
__arm64_sys_finit_module+0x130/0x2f8
invoke_syscall+0x48/0x104
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc0/0xe0
do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
el0_svc+0x2c/0x80
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x10c/0x138
el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
msm_dpu 5e01000.display-controller: [drm:msm_gpu_init [msm]] *ERROR* could not allocate memptrs: -22
msm_dpu 5e01000.display-controller: failed to load adreno gpu
platform a400000.remoteproc:glink-edge:apr:service@7:dais: Adding to iommu group 19
msm_dpu 5e01000.display-controller: failed to bind 5900000.gpu (ops a3xx_ops [msm]): -22
msm_dpu 5e01000.display-controller: adev bind failed: -22
lt9611uxc 0-002b: failed to attach dsi to host
lt9611uxc 0-002b: probe with driver lt9611uxc failed with error -22 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: do not allow relocation of partially dropped subvolumes
[BUG]
There is an internal report that balance triggered transaction abort,
with the following call trace:
item 85 key (594509824 169 0) itemoff 12599 itemsize 33
extent refs 1 gen 197740 flags 2
ref#0: tree block backref root 7
item 86 key (594558976 169 0) itemoff 12566 itemsize 33
extent refs 1 gen 197522 flags 2
ref#0: tree block backref root 7
...
BTRFS error (device loop0): extent item not found for insert, bytenr 594526208 num_bytes 16384 parent 449921024 root_objectid 934 owner 1 offset 0
BTRFS error (device loop0): failed to run delayed ref for logical 594526208 num_bytes 16384 type 182 action 1 ref_mod 1: -117
------------[ cut here ]------------
BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -117)
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6963 at ../fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:2168 btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0xfa/0x110 [btrfs]
And btrfs check doesn't report anything wrong related to the extent
tree.
[CAUSE]
The cause is a little complex, firstly the extent tree indeed doesn't
have the backref for 594526208.
The extent tree only have the following two backrefs around that bytenr
on-disk:
item 65 key (594509824 METADATA_ITEM 0) itemoff 13880 itemsize 33
refs 1 gen 197740 flags TREE_BLOCK
tree block skinny level 0
(176 0x7) tree block backref root CSUM_TREE
item 66 key (594558976 METADATA_ITEM 0) itemoff 13847 itemsize 33
refs 1 gen 197522 flags TREE_BLOCK
tree block skinny level 0
(176 0x7) tree block backref root CSUM_TREE
But the such missing backref item is not an corruption on disk, as the
offending delayed ref belongs to subvolume 934, and that subvolume is
being dropped:
item 0 key (934 ROOT_ITEM 198229) itemoff 15844 itemsize 439
generation 198229 root_dirid 256 bytenr 10741039104 byte_limit 0 bytes_used 345571328
last_snapshot 198229 flags 0x1000000000001(RDONLY) refs 0
drop_progress key (206324 EXTENT_DATA 2711650304) drop_level 2
level 2 generation_v2 198229
And that offending tree block 594526208 is inside the dropped range of
that subvolume. That explains why there is no backref item for that
bytenr and why btrfs check is not reporting anything wrong.
But this also shows another problem, as btrfs will do all the orphan
subvolume cleanup at a read-write mount.
So half-dropped subvolume should not exist after an RW mount, and
balance itself is also exclusive to subvolume cleanup, meaning we
shouldn't hit a subvolume half-dropped during relocation.
The root cause is, there is no orphan item for this subvolume.
In fact there are 5 subvolumes from around 2021 that have the same
problem.
It looks like the original report has some older kernels running, and
caused those zombie subvolumes.
Thankfully upstream commit 8d488a8c7ba2 ("btrfs: fix subvolume/snapshot
deletion not triggered on mount") has long fixed the bug.
[ENHANCEMENT]
For repairing such old fs, btrfs-progs will be enhanced.
Considering how delayed the problem will show up (at run delayed ref
time) and at that time we have to abort transaction already, it is too
late.
Instead here we reject any half-dropped subvolume for reloc tree at the
earliest time, preventing confusion and extra time wasted on debugging
similar bugs. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/kmemleak: avoid soft lockup in __kmemleak_do_cleanup()
A soft lockup warning was observed on a relative small system x86-64
system with 16 GB of memory when running a debug kernel with kmemleak
enabled.
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#8 stuck for 33s! [kworker/8:1:134]
The test system was running a workload with hot unplug happening in
parallel. Then kemleak decided to disable itself due to its inability to
allocate more kmemleak objects. The debug kernel has its
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE set to 40,000.
The soft lockup happened in kmemleak_do_cleanup() when the existing
kmemleak objects were being removed and deleted one-by-one in a loop via a
workqueue. In this particular case, there are at least 40,000 objects
that need to be processed and given the slowness of a debug kernel and the
fact that a raw_spinlock has to be acquired and released in
__delete_object(), it could take a while to properly handle all these
objects.
As kmemleak has been disabled in this case, the object removal and
deletion process can be further optimized as locking isn't really needed.
However, it is probably not worth the effort to optimize for such an edge
case that should rarely happen. So the simple solution is to call
cond_resched() at periodic interval in the iteration loop to avoid soft
lockup. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/kmemleak: avoid deadlock by moving pr_warn() outside kmemleak_lock
When netpoll is enabled, calling pr_warn_once() while holding
kmemleak_lock in mem_pool_alloc() can cause a deadlock due to lock
inversion with the netconsole subsystem. This occurs because
pr_warn_once() may trigger netpoll, which eventually leads to
__alloc_skb() and back into kmemleak code, attempting to reacquire
kmemleak_lock.
This is the path for the deadlock.
mem_pool_alloc()
-> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags);
-> pr_warn_once()
-> netconsole subsystem
-> netpoll
-> __alloc_skb
-> __create_object
-> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags);
Fix this by setting a flag and issuing the pr_warn_once() after
kmemleak_lock is released. |
