CVE-2021-47552

published 2024-05-24

CVE-2021-47552: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: cancel blk-mq dispatch work in both blk_cleanup_queue and disk_release() For…

Priority P4 21 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C N I N A H

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

blk-mq: cancel blk-mq dispatch work in both blk_cleanup_queue and disk_release()

For avoiding to slow down queue destroy, we don't call
blk_mq_quiesce_queue() in blk_cleanup_queue(), instead of delaying to
cancel dispatch work in blk_release_queue().

However, this way has caused kernel oops[1], reported by Changhui. The log
shows that scsi_device can be freed before running blk_release_queue(),
which is expected too since scsi_device is released after the scsi disk
is closed and the scsi_device is removed.

Fixes the issue by canceling blk-mq dispatch work in both blk_cleanup_queue()
and disk_release():

1) when disk_release() is run, the disk has been closed, and any sync
dispatch activities have been done, so canceling dispatch work is enough to
quiesce filesystem I/O dispatch activity.

2) in blk_cleanup_queue(), we only focus on passthrough request, and
passthrough request is always explicitly allocated & freed by
its caller, so once queue is frozen, all sync dispatch activity
for passthrough request has been done, then it is enough to just cancel
dispatch work for avoiding any dispatch activity.

[1] kernel panic log
[12622.769416] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000300
[12622.777186] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[12622.782918] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[12622.788649] PGD 0 P4D 0
[12622.791474] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[12622.796138] CPU: 10 PID: 744 Comm: kworker/10:1H Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.15.0+ #1
[12622.804877] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/0H21J3, BIOS 1.5.4 10/002/2015
[12622.813321] Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_run_work_fn
[12622.818572] RIP: 0010:sbitmap_get+0x75/0x190
[12622.823336] Code: 85 80 00 00 00 41 8b 57 08 85 d2 0f 84 b1 00 00 00 45 31 e4 48 63 cd 48 8d 1c 49 48 c1 e3 06 49 03 5f 10 4c 8d 6b 40 83 f0 01 8b 33 44 89 f2 4c 89 ef 0f b6 c8 e8 fa f3 ff ff 83 f8 ff 75 58
[12622.844290] RSP: 0018:ffffb00a4

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	linux	< linux 5.15.15-1 (bookworm)	linux 5.15.15-1 (bookworm)
linux	linux	—	—
linux	linux	>= 1b97871b501f1bac0fd39a073c4c8473ee457a55 < e03513f58919d9e2bc6df765ca2c9da863d03d90	e03513f58919d9e2bc6df765ca2c9da863d03d90
linux	linux	>= 1b97871b501f1bac0fd39a073c4c8473ee457a55 < 2a19b28f7929866e1cec92a3619f4de9f2d20005	2a19b28f7929866e1cec92a3619f4de9f2d20005
linux	linux_kernel	< 5.15.6	5.15.6
linux	linux_kernel	—	—
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 5.15.15-1	5.15.15-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 5.15.15-1	5.15.15-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 5.15.15-1	5.15.15-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

osv 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_redhat 5.5 MEDIUM

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