CVE-2023-52699Medium· 5.3▾ SunlitIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysv: don't call sb_bread() with pointers_lock held syzbot is reporting sleep in atomic context in SysV filesystem [1], for sb_bread() is called with rw_spinlock held.…
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 29.2 · likelihood 0.2 · exploitation 0
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sysv: don't call sb_bread() with pointers_lock held
syzbot is reporting sleep in atomic context in SysV filesystem [1], for sb_bread() is called with rw_spinlock held.
A "write_lock(&pointers_lock) => read_lock(&pointers_lock) deadlock" bug and a "sb_bread() with write_lock(&pointers_lock)" bug were introduced by "Replace BKL for chain locking with sysvfs-private rwlock" in Linux 2.5.12.
Then, "[PATCH] err1-40: sysvfs locking fix" in Linux 2.6.8 fixed the former bug by moving pointers_lock lock to the callers, but instead introduced a "sb_bread() with read_lock(&pointers_lock)" bug (which made this problem easier to hit).
Al Viro suggested that why not to do like get_branch()/get_block()/ find_shared() in Minix filesystem does. And doing like that is almost a revert of "[PATCH] err1-40: sysvfs locking fix" except that get_branch() from with find_shared() is called without write_lock(&pointers_lock).
linux_kernel < 4.19.312linux_kernel >= 4.20, < 5.4.274linux_kernel >= 5.5, < 5.10.215linux_kernel >= 5.11, < 5.15.155linux_kernel >= 5.16, < 6.1.86linux_kernel >= 6.2, < 6.6.27linux_kernel >= 6.7, < 6.8.6debian_linux = 10.0Upgrade past the affected range:
linux_kernel 6.8.6Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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