CVE-2024-50106 (published 2024-11-05)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfsd: fix race between laundromat and free_stateid

There is a race between laundromat handling of revoked delegations
and a client sending free_stateid operation. Laundromat thread
finds that delegation has expired and needs to be revoked so it
marks the delegation stid revoked and it puts it on a reaper list
but then it unlock the state lock and the actual delegation revocation
happens without the lock. Once the stid is marked revoked a racing
free_stateid processing thread does the following (1) it calls
list_del_init() which removes it from the reaper list and (2) frees
the delegation stid structure. The laundromat thread ends up not
calling the revoke_delegation() function for this particular delegation
but that means it will no release the lock lease that exists on
the file.

Now, a new open for this file comes in and ends up finding that
lease list isn't empty and calls nfsd_breaker_owns_lease() which ends
up trying to derefence a freed delegation stateid. Leading to the
followint use-after-free KASAN warning:

kernel: ==================================================================
kernel: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nfsd_breaker_owns_lease+0x140/0x160 [nfsd]
kernel: Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000e73cd0c8 by task nfsd/6205
kernel:
kernel: CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 6205 Comm: nfsd Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.11.0-rc7+ #9
kernel: Hardware name: Apple Inc. Apple Virtualization Generic Platform, BIOS 2069.0.0.0.0 08/03/2024
kernel: Call trace:
kernel: dump_backtrace+0x98/0x120
kernel: show_stack+0x1c/0x30
kernel: dump_stack_lvl+0x80/0xe8
kernel: print_address_description.constprop.0+0x84/0x390
kernel: print_report+0xa4/0x268
kernel: kasan_report+0xb4/0xf8
kernel: __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1c/0x28
kernel: nfsd_breaker_owns_lease+0x140/0x160 [nfsd]
kernel: nfsd_file_do_acquire+0xb3c/0x11d0 [nfsd]
kernel: nfsd_file_acquire_opened+0x84/0x110 [nfsd]
kernel: nfs4_get_vfs_file+0x634/0x958 [nfsd]
kernel: nfsd4_process_open2+0xa40/0x1a40 [nfsd]
kernel: nfsd4_open+0xa08/0xe80 [nfsd]
kernel: nfsd4_proc_compound+0xb8c/0x2130 [nfsd]
kernel: nfsd_dispatch+0x22c/0x718 [nfsd]
kernel: svc_process_common+0x8e8/0x1960 [sunrpc]
kernel: svc_process+0x3d4/0x7e0 [sunrpc]
kernel: svc_handle_xprt+0x828/0xe10 [sunrpc]
kernel: svc_recv+0x2cc/0x6a8 [sunrpc]
kernel: nfsd+0x270/0x400 [nfsd]
kernel: kthread+0x288/0x310
kernel: ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

This patch proposes a fixed that's based on adding 2 new additional
stid's sc_status values that help coordinate between the laundromat
and other operations (nfsd4_free_stateid() and nfsd4_delegreturn()).

First to make sure, that once the stid is marked revoked, it is not
removed by the nfsd4_free_stateid(), the laundromat take a reference
on the stateid. Then, coordinating whether the stid has been put
on the cl_revoked list or we are processing FREE_STATEID and need to
make sure to remove it from the list, each check that state and act
accordingly. If laundromat has added to the cl_revoke list before
the arrival of FREE_STATEID, then nfsd4_free_stateid() knows to remove
it from the list. If nfsd4_free_stateid() finds that operations arrived
before laundromat has placed it on cl_revoke list, it marks the state
freed and then laundromat will no longer add it to the list.

Also, for nfsd4_delegreturn() when looking for the specified stid,
we need to access stid that are marked removed or freeable, it means
the laundromat has started processing it but hasn't finished and this
delegreturn needs to return nfserr_deleg_revoked and not
nfserr_bad_stateid. The latter will not trigger a FREE_STATEID and the
lack of it will leave this stid on the cl_revoked list indefinitely.
Severity: HIGH (CVSS 3.1 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Weakness: CWE-416
Affected vendors: linux
Affected products: linux_kernel