CVE: CVE-2021-47041
Published: 2024-02-28
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nvmet-tcp: fix incorrect locking in state_change sk callback

We are not changing anything in the TCP connection state so
we should not take a write_lock but rather a read lock.

This caused a deadlock when running nvmet-tcp and nvme-tcp
on the same system, where state_change callbacks on the
host and on the controller side have causal relationship
and made lockdep report on this with blktests:

================================
WARNING: inconsistent lock state
5.12.0-rc3 #1 Tainted: G          I
--------------------------------
inconsistent {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} -> {SOFTIRQ-ON-R} usage.
nvme/1324 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
ffff[PII_REDACTED]00 (clock-AF_INET){++-?}-{2:2}, at: nvme_tcp_state_change+0x21/0x150 [nvme_tcp]
{IN-SOFTIRQ-W} state was registered at:
  __lock_acquire+0x79b/0x18d0
  lock_acquire+0x1ca/0x480
  _raw_write_lock_bh+0x39/0x80
  nvmet_tcp_state_change+0x21/0x170 [nvmet_tcp]
  tcp_fin+0x2a8/0x780
  tcp_data_queue+0xf94/0x1f20
  tcp_rcv_established+0x6ba/0x1f00
  tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x502/0x760
  tcp_v4_rcv+0x257e/0x3430
  ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x69/0x6a0
  ip_local_deliver_finish+0x1e2/0x2f0
  ip_local_deliver+0x1a2/0x420
  ip_rcv+0x4fb/0x6b0
  __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x162/0x1b0
  process_backlog+0x1ff/0x770
  __napi_poll.constprop.0+0xa9/0x5c0
  net_rx_action+0x7b3/0xb30
  __do_softirq+0x1f0/0x940
  do_softirq+0xa1/0xd0
  __local_bh_enable_ip+0xd8/0x100
  ip_finish_output2+0x6b7/0x18a0
  __ip_queue_xmit+0x706/0x1aa0
  __tcp_transmit_skb+0x2068/0x2e20
  tcp_write_xmit+0xc9e/0x2bb0
  __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x92/0x310
  inet_shutdown+0x158/0x300
  __nvme_tcp_stop_queue+0x36/0x270 [nvme_tcp]
  nvme_tcp_stop_queue+0x87/0xb0 [nvme_tcp]
  nvme_tcp_teardown_admin_queue+0x69/0xe0 [nvme_tcp]
  nvme_do_delete_ctrl+0x100/0x10c [nvme_core]
  nvme_sysfs_delete.cold+0x8/0xd [nvme_core]
  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x2c7/0x460
  new_sync_write+0x36c/0x610
  vfs_write+0x5c0/0x870
  ksys_write+0xf9/0x1d0
  do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
irq event stamp: 10687
hardirqs last  enabled at (10687): [<ffffffff9ec376bd>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2d/0x40
hardirqs last disabled at (10686): [<ffffffff9ec374d8>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x68/0x90
softirqs last  enabled at (10684): [<ffffffff9f000608>] __do_softirq+0x608/0x940
softirqs last disabled at (10649): [<ffffffff9cdedd31>] do_softirq+0xa1/0xd0

other info that might help us debug this:
 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0
       ----
  lock(clock-AF_INET);
  <Interrupt>
    lock(clock-AF_INET);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

5 locks held by nvme/1324:
 #0: ffff8884a01fe470 (sb_writers#4){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksys_write+0xf9/0x1d0
 #1: ffff8886e435c090 (&of->mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x216/0x460
 #2: ffff888104d90c38 (kn->active#255){++++}-{0:0}, at: kernfs_remove_self+0x22d/0x330
 #3: ffff[PII_REDACTED]d0 (&queue->queue_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: nvme_tcp_stop_queue+0x52/0xb0 [nvme_tcp]
 #4: ffff888363150d30 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: inet_shutdown+0x59/0x300

stack backtrace:
CPU: 26 PID: 1324 Comm: nvme Tainted: G          I       5.12.0-rc3 #1
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/06NR82, BIOS 2.10.0 11/12/2020
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x93/0xc2
 mark_lock_irq.cold+0x2c/0xb3
 ? verify_lock_unused+0x390/0x390
 ? stack_trace_consume_entry+0x160/0x160
 ? lock_downgrade+0x100/0x100
 ? save_trace+0x88/0x5e0
 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2d/0x40
 mark_lock+0x530/0x1470
 ? mark_lock_irq+0x1d10/0x1d10
 ? enqueue_timer+0x660/0x660
 mark_usage+0x215/0x2a0
 __lock_acquire+0x79b/0x18d0
 ? tcp_schedule_loss_probe.part.0+0x38c/0x520
 lock_acquire+0x1ca/0x480
 ? nvme_tcp_state_change+0x21/0x150 [nvme_tcp]
 ? rcu_read_unlock+0x40/0x40
 ? tcp_mtu_probe+0x1ae0/0x1ae0
 ? kmalloc_reserve+0xa0/0xa0
 ? sysfs_file_ops+0x170/0x170
 _raw_read_lock+0x3d/0xa0
 ? nvme_tcp_state_change+0x21/0x150 [nvme_tcp]
 nvme_tcp_state_change+0x21/0x150 [nvme_tcp]
 ? sysfs_file_ops
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-667
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06beaa1a9f6e501213195e47c30416032fd2bbd5; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60ade0d56b06537a[PII_REDACTED]9b3801c78e03bc; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/906c538340dde6d891df89fe7dac8eaa724e40da