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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-56779

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 1/08/2025 1:15:18 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

nfsd: fix nfs4_openowner leak when concurrent nfsd4_open occur

The action force umount(umount -f) will attempt to kill all rpc_task even
umount operation may ultimately fail if some files remain open.
Consequently, if an action attempts to open a file, it can potentially
send two rpc_task to nfs server.

                   NFS CLIENT
thread1                             thread2
open("file")
...
nfs4_do_open
 _nfs4_do_open
  _nfs4_open_and_get_state
   _nfs4_proc_open
    nfs4_run_open_task
     /* rpc_task1 */
     rpc_run_task
     rpc_wait_for_completion_task

                                    umount -f
                                    nfs_umount_begin
                                     rpc_killall_tasks
                                      rpc_signal_task
     rpc_task1 been wakeup
     and return -512
 _nfs4_do_open // while loop
    ...
    nfs4_run_open_task
     /* rpc_task2 */
     rpc_run_task
     rpc_wait_for_completion_task

While processing an open request, nfsd will first attempt to find or
allocate an nfs4_openowner. If it finds an nfs4_openowner that is not
marked as NFS4_OO_CONFIRMED, this nfs4_openowner will released. Since
two rpc_task can attempt to open the same file simultaneously from the
client to server, and because two instances of nfsd can run
concurrently, this situation can lead to lots of memory leak.
Additionally, when we echo 0 to /proc/fs/nfsd/threads, warning will be
triggered.

                    NFS SERVER
nfsd1                  nfsd2       echo 0 > /proc/fs/nfsd/threads

nfsd4_open
 nfsd4_process_open1
  find_or_alloc_open_stateowner
   // alloc oo1, stateid1
                       nfsd4_open
                        nfsd4_process_open1
                        find_or_alloc_open_stateowner
                        // find oo1, without NFS4_OO_CONFIRMED
                         release_openowner
                          unhash_openowner_locked
                          list_del_init(&oo->oo_perclient)
                          // cannot find this oo
                          // from client, LEAK!!!
                         alloc_stateowner // alloc oo2

 nfsd4_process_open2
  init_open_stateid
  // associate oo1
  // with stateid1, stateid1 LEAK!!!
  nfs4_get_vfs_file
  // alloc nfsd_file1 and nfsd_file_mark1
  // all LEAK!!!

                         nfsd4_process_open2
                         ...

                                    write_threads
                                     ...
                                     nfsd_destroy_serv
                                      nfsd_shutdown_net
                                       nfs4_state_shutdown_net
                                        nfs4_state_destroy_net
                                         destroy_client
                                          __destroy_client
                                          // won't find oo1!!!
                                     nfsd_shutdown_generic
                                      nfsd_file_cache_shutdown
                                       kmem_cache_destroy
                                       for nfsd_file_slab
                                       and nfsd_file_mark_slab
                                       // bark since nfsd_file1
                                       // and nfsd_file_mark1
                                       // still alive

=======================================================================
BUG nfsd_file (Not tainted): Objects remaining in nfsd_file on
__kmem_cache_shutdown()
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Slab 0xffd4000004438a80 objects=34 used=1 fp=0xff11000110e2ad28
flags=0x17ffffc0000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 757 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6+ #19
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dum
---truncated---
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ab0a3ad24e970e894abcac58f85c332d1726749
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d505a801e57428057563762f67a5a62009b2600
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37dfc81266d3a32294524bfadd3396614f8633ee
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45abb68c941ebc9a35c6d3a7b08196712093c636
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f73f920b7ad0084373e46121d7ac34117aed652
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98100e88dd8865999dc6379a3356cd799795fe7b
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a85364f0d30dee01c5d5b4afa55a9629a8f36d8e