CVE: CVE-2025-21809
Published: 2025-02-27
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rxrpc, afs: Fix peer hash locking vs RCU callback

In its address list, afs now retains pointers to and refs on one or more
rxrpc_peer objects.  The address list is freed under RCU and at this time,
it puts the refs on those peers.

Now, when an rxrpc_peer object runs out of refs, it gets removed from the
peer hash table and, for that, rxrpc has to take a spinlock.  However, it
is now being called from afs's RCU cleanup, which takes place in BH
context - but it is just taking an ordinary spinlock.

The put may also be called from non-BH context, and so there exists the
possibility of deadlock if the BH-based RCU cleanup happens whilst the hash
spinlock is held.  This led to the attached lockdep complaint.

Fix this by changing spinlocks of rxnet->peer_hash_lock back to
BH-disabling locks.

    ================================
    WARNING: inconsistent lock state
    6.13.0-rc5-build2+ #1223 Tainted: G            E
    --------------------------------
    inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage.
    swapper/1/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes:
    ffff88810babe228 (&rxnet->peer_hash_lock){+.?.}-{3:3}, at: rxrpc_put_peer+0xcb/0x180
    {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at:
      mark_usage+0x164/0x180
      __lock_acquire+0x544/0x990
      lock_acquire.part.0+0x103/0x280
      _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
      rxrpc_peer_keepalive_worker+0x144/0x440
      process_one_work+0x486/0x7c0
      process_scheduled_works+0x73/0x90
      worker_thread+0x1c8/0x2a0
      kthread+0x19b/0x1b0
      ret_from_fork+0x24/0x40
      ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
    irq event stamp: 972402
    hardirqs last  enabled at (972402): [<ffffffff8244360e>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2e/0x50
    hardirqs last disabled at (972401): [<ffffffff82443328>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x18/0x60
    softirqs last  enabled at (972300): [<ffffffff810ffbbe>] handle_softirqs+0x3ee/0x430
    softirqs last disabled at (972313): [<ffffffff810ffc54>] __irq_exit_rcu+0x44/0x110

    other info that might help us debug this:
     Possible unsafe locking scenario:
           CPU0
           ----
      lock(&rxnet->peer_hash_lock);
      <Interrupt>
        lock(&rxnet->peer_hash_lock);

     *** DEADLOCK ***
    1 lock held by swapper/1/0:
     #0: ffffffff83576be0 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_lock_acquire+0x7/0x30

    stack backtrace:
    CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G            E      6.13.0-rc5-build2+ #1223
    Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
    Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H97-PLUS, BIOS 2306 10/09/2014
    Call Trace:
     <IRQ>
     dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x80
     print_usage_bug.part.0+0x227/0x240
     valid_state+0x53/0x70
     mark_lock_irq+0xa5/0x2f0
     mark_lock+0xf7/0x170
     mark_usage+0xe1/0x180
     __lock_acquire+0x544/0x990
     lock_acquire.part.0+0x103/0x280
     _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
     rxrpc_put_peer+0xcb/0x180
     afs_free_addrlist+0x46/0x90 [kafs]
     rcu_do_batch+0x2d2/0x640
     rcu_core+0x2f7/0x350
     handle_softirqs+0x1ee/0x430
     __irq_exit_rcu+0x44/0x110
     irq_exit_rcu+0xa/0x30
     sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7f/0xa0
     </IRQ>
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-667, CWE-667
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e77dd41689637ac4e1b8fe0f27541f373640855; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10ba5a3d57af20e494e0d979d[PII_REDACTED]35dd; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79d458c13056559d49b5e41fbc4b6890e68cf65b