cachefiles: Fix KASAN slab-out-of-bounds in cachefiles_set_volume_xattr
CVE: CVE-2022-49062
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-787
Severity: Moderate
CVSS v3: 7.9/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Release date: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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

cachefiles: Fix KASAN slab-out-of-bounds in cachefiles_set_volume_xattr

Use the actual length of volume coherency data when setting the
xattr to avoid the following KASAN report.

 BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in cachefiles_set_volume_xattr+0xa0/0x350 [cachefiles]
 Write of size 4 at addr ffff888101e02af4 by task kworker/6:0/1347

 CPU: 6 PID: 1347 Comm: kworker/6:0 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1-nfs-fscache-netfs+ #13
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014
 Workqueue: events fscache_create_volume_work [fscache]
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0x45/0x5a
  print_report.cold+0x5e/0x5db
  ? __lock_text_start+0x8/0x8
  ? cachefiles_set_volume_xattr+0xa0/0x350 [cachefiles]
  kasan_report+0xab/0x120
  ? cachefiles_set_volume_xattr+0xa0/0x350 [cachefiles]
  kasan_check_range+0xf5/0x1d0
  memcpy+0x39/0x60
  cachefiles_set_volume_xattr+0xa0/0x350 [cachefiles]
  cachefiles_acquire_volume+0x2be/0x500 [cachefiles]
  ? __cachefiles_free_volume+0x90/0x90 [cachefiles]
  fscache_create_volume_work+0x68/0x160 [fscache]
  process_one_work+0x3b7/0x6a0
  worker_thread+0x2c4/0x650
  ? process_one_work+0x6a0/0x6a0
  kthread+0x16c/0x1a0
  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
  </TASK>

 Allocated by task 1347:
  kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
  __kasan_kmalloc+0x81/0xa0
  cachefiles_set_volume_xattr+0x76/0x350 [cachefiles]
  cachefiles_acquire_volume+0x2be/0x500 [cachefiles]
  fscache_create_volume_work+0x68/0x160 [fscache]
  process_one_work+0x3b7/0x6a0
  worker_thread+0x2c4/0x650
  kthread+0x16c/0x1a0
  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888101e02af0
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8
 The buggy address is located 4 bytes inside of
 8-byte region [ffff888101e02af0, ffff888101e02af8)

 The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
 page:00000000a2292d70 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x101e02
 flags: 0x17ffffc0000200(slab|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
 raw: 0017ffffc0000200 0000000000000000 dead000000000001 ffff888100042280
 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080660066 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

 Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888101e02980: fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc
 ffff888101e02a00: 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00
 >ffff888101e02a80: fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 04 fc
                                                            ^
 ffff888101e02b00: fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc
 ffff888101e02b80: fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc
 ==================================================================

Statement: A bounds error in cachefiles_set_volume_xattr caused writing past the allocated buffer due to misuse of len. This led to a slab-out-of-bounds write detected by KASAN, potentially crashing the kernel during fscache volume creation. For the Red Hat Enterprise Linux the bug is already fixed or not actual (for all versions).

Remediation:
To mitigate this issue, prevent module cachefiles from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.