CVE-2023-52623: kernel: SUNRPC: Fix a suspicious RCU usage warning
Component: kernel
Severity: Low
CWE: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition'))
CVSS v3: 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Public date: 2024-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

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

SUNRPC: Fix a suspicious RCU usage warning

I received the following warning while running cthon against an ontap
server running pNFS:

[   57.202521] =============================
[   57.202522] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[   57.202523] 6.7.0-rc3-g2cc14f52aeb7 #41492 Not tainted
[   57.202525] -----------------------------
[   57.202525] net/sunrpc/xprtmultipath.c:349 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
[   57.202527]
               other info that might help us debug this:

[   57.202528]
               rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
[   57.202529] no locks held by test5/3567.
[   57.202530]
               stack backtrace:
[   57.202532] CPU: 0 PID: 3567 Comm: test5 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc3-g2cc14f52aeb7 #41492 5b09971b4965c0aceba19f3eea324a4a806e227e
[   57.202534] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 2/2/2022
[   57.202536] Call Trace:
[   57.202537]  <TASK>
[   57.202540]  dump_stack_lvl+0x77/0xb0
[   57.202551]  lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x154/0x1a0
[   57.202556]  rpc_xprt_switch_has_addr+0x17c/0x190 [sunrpc ebe02571b9a8ceebf7d98e71675af20c19bdb1f6]
[   57.202596]  rpc_clnt_setup_test_and_add_xprt+0x50/0x180 [sunrpc ebe02571b9a8ceebf7d98e71675af20c19bdb1f6]
[   57.202621]  ? rpc_clnt_add_xprt+0x254/0x300 [sunrpc ebe02571b9a8ceebf7d98e71675af20c19bdb1f6]
[   57.202646]  rpc_clnt_add_xprt+0x27a/0x300 [sunrpc ebe02571b9a8ceebf7d98e71675af20c19bdb1f6]
[   57.202671]  ? __pfx_rpc_clnt_setup_test_and_add_xprt+0x10/0x10 [sunrpc ebe02571b9a8ceebf7d98e71675af20c19bdb1f6]
[   57.202696]  nfs4_pnfs_ds_connect+0x345/0x760 [nfsv4 c716d88496ded0ea6d289bbea684fa996f9b57a9]
[   57.202728]  ? __pfx_nfs4_test_session_trunk+0x10/0x10 [nfsv4 c716d88496ded0ea6d289bbea684fa996f9b57a9]
[   57.202754]  nfs4_fl_prepare_ds+0x75/0xc0 [nfs_layout_nfsv41_files e3a4187f18ae8a27b630f9feae6831b584a9360a]
[   57.202760]  filelayout_write_pagelist+0x4a/0x200 [nfs_layout_nfsv41_files e3a4187f18ae8a27b630f9feae6831b584a9360a]
[   57.202765]  pnfs_generic_pg_writepages+0xbe/0x230 [nfsv4 c716d88496ded0ea6d289bbea684fa996f9b57a9]
[   57.202788]  __nfs_pageio_add_request+0x3fd/0x520 [nfs 6c976fa593a7c2976f5a0aeb4965514a828e6902]
[   57.202813]  nfs_pageio_add_request+0x18b/0x390 [nfs 6c976fa593a7c2976f5a0aeb4965514a828e6902]
[   57.202831]  nfs_do_writepage+0x116/0x1e0 [nfs 6c976fa593a7c2976f5a0aeb4965514a828e6902]
[   57.202849]  nfs_writepages_callback+0x13/0x30 [nfs 6c976fa593a7c2976f5a0aeb4965514a828e6902]
[   57.202866]  write_cache_pages+0x265/0x450
[   57.202870]  ? __pfx_nfs_writepages_callback+0x10/0x10 [nfs 6c976fa593a7c2976f5a0aeb4965514a828e6902]
[   57.202891]  nfs_writepages+0x141/0x230 [nfs 6c976fa593a7c2976f5a0aeb4965514a828e6902]
[   57.202913]  do_writepages+0xd2/0x230
[   57.202917]  ? filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x5c/0x80
[   57.202921]  filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x67/0x80
[   57.202924]  filemap_write_and_wait_range+0xd9/0x170
[   57.202930]  nfs_wb_all+0x49/0x180 [nfs 6c976fa593a7c2976f5a0aeb4965514a828e6902]
[   57.202947]  nfs4_file_flush+0x72/0xb0 [nfsv4 c716d88496ded0ea6d289bbea684fa996f9b57a9]
[   57.202969]  __se_sys_close+0x46/0xd0
[   57.202972]  do_syscall_64+0x68/0x100
[   57.202975]  ? do_syscall_64+0x77/0x100
[   57.202976]  ? do_syscall_64+0x77/0x100
[   57.202979]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
[   57.202982] RIP: 0033:0x7fe2b12e4a94
[   57.202985] Code: 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 80 3d d5 18 0e 00 00 74 13 b8 03 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 44 c3 0f 1f 00 48 83 ec 18 89 7c 24 0c e8 c3
[   57.202987] RSP: 002b:00007ffe857ddb38 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003
[   57.202989] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffe857dfd68 RCX: 00007fe2b12e4a94
[   57.202991] RDX: 0000000000002000 RSI: 00007ffe857ddc40 RDI: 0000000000000003
[   57.202992] RBP: 00007ffe857dfc50 R08: 7fffffffffffffff R09: 0000000065650f49
[   57.202993] R10: 00007f
---truncated---


Affected upstream versions: 4.9
Fixed upstream versions: 0, 4.19.307, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 5.4.269, 6.1.77, 6.6.16, 6.7.4, 6.8
Upstream repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Upstream fix commit: fece80a2a6718ed58487ce397285bb1b83a3e54e