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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-50228

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 11/09/2024 6:15:08 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

mm: shmem: fix data-race in shmem_getattr()

I got the following KCSAN report during syzbot testing:

==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in generic_fillattr / inode_set_ctime_current

write to 0xffff888102eb3260 of 4 bytes by task 6565 on cpu 1:
 inode_set_ctime_to_ts include/linux/fs.h:1638 [inline]
 inode_set_ctime_current+0x169/0x1d0 fs/inode.c:2626
 shmem_mknod+0x117/0x180 mm/shmem.c:3443
 shmem_create+0x34/0x40 mm/shmem.c:3497
 lookup_open fs/namei.c:3578 [inline]
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3647 [inline]
 path_openat+0xdbc/0x1f00 fs/namei.c:3883
 do_filp_open+0xf7/0x200 fs/namei.c:3913
 do_sys_openat2+0xab/0x120 fs/open.c:1416
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1431 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1442 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0xf3/0x120 fs/open.c:1442
 x64_sys_call+0x1025/0x2d60 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:258
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x54/0x120 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

read to 0xffff888102eb3260 of 4 bytes by task 3498 on cpu 0:
 inode_get_ctime_nsec include/linux/fs.h:1623 [inline]
 inode_get_ctime include/linux/fs.h:1629 [inline]
 generic_fillattr+0x1dd/0x2f0 fs/stat.c:62
 shmem_getattr+0x17b/0x200 mm/shmem.c:1157
 vfs_getattr_nosec fs/stat.c:166 [inline]
 vfs_getattr+0x19b/0x1e0 fs/stat.c:207
 vfs_statx_path fs/stat.c:251 [inline]
 vfs_statx+0x134/0x2f0 fs/stat.c:315
 vfs_fstatat+0xec/0x110 fs/stat.c:341
 __do_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:505 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstatat+0x58/0x260 fs/stat.c:499
 __x64_sys_newfstatat+0x55/0x70 fs/stat.c:499
 x64_sys_call+0x141f/0x2d60 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:263
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x54/0x120 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

value changed: 0x2755ae53 -> 0x27ee44d3

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3498 Comm: udevd Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-syzkaller-00326-gd1f2d51b711a-dirty #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/06/2024
==================================================================

When calling generic_fillattr(), if you don't hold read lock, data-race
will occur in inode member variables, which can cause unexpected
behavior.

Since there is no special protection when shmem_getattr() calls
generic_fillattr(), data-race occurs by functions such as shmem_unlink()
or shmem_mknod(). This can cause unexpected results, so commenting it out
is not enough.

Therefore, when calling generic_fillattr() from shmem_getattr(), it is
appropriate to protect the inode using inode_lock_shared() and
inode_unlock_shared() to prevent data-race.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d9528484480e8f4979b3a347930ed383be99f89 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cc30ada84323be19395094d567579536e0d187e [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82cae1e30bd940253593c2d4f16d88343d1358f4 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fb9703cd43ee20a6de8ccdef991677b7274cec0 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bda1a99a0dd644f31a87d636ac624eeb975cb65a [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d949d1d14fa281ace388b1de978e8f2cd52875cf [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edd1f905050686fdc4cfe233d818469fdf7d5ff8 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffd56612566bc23877c8f45def2801f3324a222a [No types assigned]