CVE: CVE-2021-47408
Published: 2024-05-21
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: conntrack: serialize hash resizes and cleanups

Syzbot was able to trigger the following warning [1]

No repro found by syzbot yet but I was able to trigger similar issue
by having 2 scripts running in parallel, changing conntrack hash sizes,
and:

for j in `seq 1 1000` ; do unshare -n /bin/true >/dev/null ; done

It would take more than 5 minutes for net_namespace structures
to be cleaned up.

This is because nf_ct_iterate_cleanup() has to restart everytime
a resize happened.

By adding a mutex, we can serialize hash resizes and cleanups
and also make get_next_corpse() faster by skipping over empty
buckets.

Even without resizes in the picture, this patch considerably
speeds up network namespace dismantles.

[1]
INFO: task syz-executor.0:8312 can't die for more than 144 seconds.
task:syz-executor.0  state:R  running task     stack:25672 pid: 8312 ppid:  6573 flags:0x00004006
Call Trace:
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:4955 [inline]
 __schedule+0x940/0x26f0 kernel/sched/core.c:6236
 preempt_schedule_common+0x45/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6408
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x18 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:35
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x109/0x120 kernel/softirq.c:390
 local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:32 [inline]
 get_next_corpse net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2252 [inline]
 nf_ct_iterate_cleanup+0x15a/0x450 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2275
 nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list+0x14c/0x4f0 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2469
 ops_exit_list+0x10d/0x160 net/core/net_namespace.c:171
 setup_net+0x639/0xa30 net/core/net_namespace.c:349
 copy_net_ns+0x319/0x760 net/core/net_namespace.c:470
 create_new_namespaces+0x3f6/0xb20 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xc1/0x1f0 kernel/nsproxy.c:226
 ksys_unshare+0x445/0x920 kernel/fork.c:3128
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3202 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3200 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x2d/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3200
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f63da68e739
RSP: 002b:00007f63d7c05188 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: [PII_REDACTED]
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f63da792f80 RCX: 00007f63da68e739
RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
RBP: 00007f63da6e8cc4 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: [PII_REDACTED]
R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: 00007f63da792f80
R13: 00007fff50b75d3f R14: 00007f63d7c05300 R15: [PII_REDACTED]

Showing all locks held in the system:
1 lock held by khungtaskd/27:
 #0: ffffffff8b980020 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x53/0x260 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6446
2 locks held by kworker/u4:2/153:
 #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: arch_atomic64_set arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:34 [inline]
 #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: arch_atomic_long_set include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:41 [inline]
 #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: atomic_long_set include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1198 [inline]
 #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: set_work_data kernel/workqueue.c:634 [inline]
 #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: set_work_pool_and_clear_pending kernel/workqueue.c:661 [inline]
 #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x896/0x1690 kernel/workqueue.c:2268
 #1: ffffc9000140fdb0 ((kfence_timer).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x8ca/0x1690 kernel/workqueue.c:2272
1 lock held by systemd-udevd/2970:
1 lock held by in:imklog/6258:
 #0: ffff88807f970ff0 (&f->f_pos_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __fdget_pos+0xe9/0x100 fs/file.c:990
3 locks held by kworker/1:6/8158:
1 lock held by syz-executor.0/8312:
2 locks held by kworker/u4:13/9320:
1 lock held by
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ea6f[PII_REDACTED]ce0cff6cafdcf3fbdeb8ca7e1; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2d192301a0df8160d1555b66ae8611e8050e424; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9edc188fc76499b0b9bd[PII_REDACTED]7f6d03773