eventfs: Use list_del_rcu() for SRCU protected list variable
CVE: CVE-2024-46785
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-476
Severity: Moderate
CVSS v3: 5.6/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2024-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

eventfs: Use list_del_rcu() for SRCU protected list variable

Chi Zhiling reported:

  We found a null pointer accessing in tracefs[1], the reason is that the
  variable 'ei_child' is set to LIST_POISON1, that means the list was
  removed in eventfs_remove_rec. so when access the ei_child->is_freed, the
  panic triggered.

  by the way, the following script can reproduce this panic

  loop1 (){
      while true
      do
          echo "p:kp submit_bio" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
          echo "" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
      done
  }
  loop2 (){
      while true
      do
          tree /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/
      done
  }
  loop1 &
  loop2

  [1]:
  [ 1147.959632][T17331] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dead000000000150
  [ 1147.968239][T17331] Mem abort info:
  [ 1147.971739][T17331]   ESR = 0x0000000096000004
  [ 1147.976172][T17331]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  [ 1147.982171][T17331]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
  [ 1147.985906][T17331]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  [ 1147.989734][T17331]   FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
  [ 1147.995292][T17331] Data abort info:
  [ 1147.998858][T17331]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
  [ 1148.005023][T17331]   CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
  [ 1148.010759][T17331]   GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
  [ 1148.016752][T17331] [dead000000000150] address between user and kernel address ranges
  [ 1148.024571][T17331] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] SMP
  [ 1148.030825][T17331] Modules linked in: team_mode_loadbalance team nlmon act_gact cls_flower sch_ingress bonding tls macvlan dummy ib_core bridge stp llc veth amdgpu amdxcp mfd_core gpu_sched drm_exec drm_buddy radeon crct10dif_ce video drm_suballoc_helper ghash_ce drm_ttm_helper sha2_ce ttm sha256_arm64 i2c_algo_bit sha1_ce sbsa_gwdt cp210x drm_display_helper cec sr_mod cdrom drm_kms_helper binfmt_misc sg loop fuse drm dm_mod nfnetlink ip_tables autofs4 [last unloaded: tls]
  [ 1148.072808][T17331] CPU: 3 PID: 17331 Comm: ls Tainted: G        W         ------- ----  6.6.43 #2
  [ 1148.081751][T17331] Source Version: 21b3b386e948bedd29369af66f3e98ab01b1c650
  [ 1148.088783][T17331] Hardware name: Greatwall GW-001M1A-FTF/GW-001M1A-FTF, BIOS KunLun BIOS V4.0 07/16/2020
  [ 1148.098419][T17331] pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
  [ 1148.106060][T17331] pc : eventfs_iterate+0x2c0/0x398
  [ 1148.111017][T17331] lr : eventfs_iterate+0x2fc/0x398
  [ 1148.115969][T17331] sp : ffff80008d56bbd0
  [ 1148.119964][T17331] x29: ffff80008d56bbf0 x28: ffff001ff5be2600 x27: 0000000000000000
  [ 1148.127781][T17331] x26: ffff001ff52ca4e0 x25: 0000000000009977 x24: dead000000000100
  [ 1148.135598][T17331] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 000000000000000b x21: ffff800082645f10
  [ 1148.143415][T17331] x20: ffff001fddf87c70 x19: ffff80008d56bc90 x18: 0000000000000000
  [ 1148.151231][T17331] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff001ff52ca4e0
  [ 1148.159048][T17331] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
  [ 1148.166864][T17331] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffff8000804391d0
  [ 1148.174680][T17331] x8 : 0000000180000000 x7 : 0000000000000018 x6 : 0000aaab04b92862
  [ 1148.182498][T17331] x5 : 0000aaab04b92862 x4 : 0000000080000000 x3 : 0000000000000068
  [ 1148.190314][T17331] x2 : 000000000000000f x1 : 0000000000007ea8 x0 : 0000000000000001
  [ 1148.198131][T17331] Call trace:
  [ 1148.201259][T17331]  eventfs_iterate+0x2c0/0x398
  [ 1148.205864][T17331]  iterate_dir+0x98/0x188
  [ 1148.210036][T17331]  __arm64_sys_getdents64+0x78/0x160
  [ 1148.215161][T17331]  invoke_syscall+0x78/0x108
  [ 1148.219593][T17331]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf0
  [ 1148.224977][T17331]  do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
  [ 1148.228974][T17331]  el0_svc+0x40/0x168
  [ 1148.232798][T17
---truncated---


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