CVE-2022-50516: kernel: fs: dlm: fix invalid derefence of sb_lvbptr
Component: kernel
Severity: Moderate
CWE: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)
CVSS v3: 5.2 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H)
Public date: 2025-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

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

fs: dlm: fix invalid derefence of sb_lvbptr

I experience issues when putting a lkbsb on the stack and have sb_lvbptr
field to a dangled pointer while not using DLM_LKF_VALBLK. It will crash
with the following kernel message, the dangled pointer is here
0xdeadbeef as example:

[  102.749317] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000deadbeef
[  102.749320] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[  102.749323] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[  102.749325] PGD 0 P4D 0
[  102.749332] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[  102.749336] CPU: 0 PID: 1567 Comm: lock_torture_wr Tainted: G        W         5.19.0-rc3+ #1565
[  102.749343] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM/RHEL-AV, BIOS 1.16.0-2.module+el8.7.0+15506+033991b0 04/01/2014
[  102.749344] RIP: 0010:memcpy_erms+0x6/0x10
[  102.749353] Code: cc cc cc cc eb 1e 0f 1f 00 48 89 f8 48 89 d1 48 c1 e9 03 83 e2 07 f3 48 a5 89 d1 f3 a4 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 d1 <f3> a4 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 89 f8 48 83 fa 20 72 7e 40 38 fe
[  102.749355] RSP: 0018:ffff97a58145fd08 EFLAGS: 00010202
[  102.749358] RAX: ffff901778b77070 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000040
[  102.749360] RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 00000000deadbeef RDI: ffff901778b77070
[  102.749362] RBP: ffff97a58145fd10 R08: ffff901760b67a70 R09: 0000000000000001
[  102.749364] R10: ffff9017008e2cb8 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff901760b67a70
[  102.749366] R13: ffff901760b78f00 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000001
[  102.749368] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff901876e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  102.749372] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  102.749374] CR2: 00000000deadbeef CR3: 000000017c49a004 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
[  102.749376] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  102.749378] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  102.749379] PKRU: 55555554
[  102.749381] Call Trace:
[  102.749382]  <TASK>
[  102.749383]  ? send_args+0xb2/0xd0
[  102.749389]  send_common+0xb7/0xd0
[  102.749395]  _unlock_lock+0x2c/0x90
[  102.749400]  unlock_lock.isra.56+0x62/0xa0
[  102.749405]  dlm_unlock+0x21e/0x330
[  102.749411]  ? lock_torture_stats+0x80/0x80 [dlm_locktorture]
[  102.749416]  torture_unlock+0x5a/0x90 [dlm_locktorture]
[  102.749419]  ? preempt_count_sub+0xba/0x100
[  102.749427]  lock_torture_writer+0xbd/0x150 [dlm_locktorture]
[  102.786186]  kthread+0x10a/0x130
[  102.786581]  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[  102.787156]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[  102.787588]  </TASK>
[  102.787855] Modules linked in: dlm_locktorture torture rpcsec_gss_krb5 intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common kvm_intel iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support kvm vmw_vsock_virtio_transport qxl irqbypass vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common drm_ttm_helper crc32_pclmul joydev crc32c_intel ttm vsock virtio_scsi virtio_balloon snd_pcm drm_kms_helper virtio_console snd_timer snd drm soundcore syscopyarea i2c_i801 sysfillrect sysimgblt i2c_smbus pcspkr fb_sys_fops lpc_ich serio_raw
[  102.792536] CR2: 00000000deadbeef
[  102.792930] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

This patch fixes the issue by checking also on DLM_LKF_VALBLK on exflags
is set when copying the lvbptr array instead of if it's just null which
fixes for me the issue.

I think this patch can fix other dlm users as well, depending how they
handle the init, freeing memory handling of sb_lvbptr and don't set
DLM_LKF_VALBLK for some dlm_lock() calls. It might a there could be a
hidden issue all the time. However with checking on DLM_LKF_VALBLK the
user always need to provide a sb_lvbptr non-null value. There might be
more intelligent handling between per ls lvblen, DLM_LKF_VALBLK and
non-null to report the user the way how DLM API is used is wrong but can
be added for later, this will only fix the current behaviour.


Affected upstream versions: 2.6.19
Fixed upstream versions: 0, 5.10.251, 5.15.76, 5.19.17, 6.0.3, 6.1
Upstream repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Upstream fix commit: ef3033b435a6bac547166b793025578fab2f9df3