CVE-2022-50373 fs: dlm: fix race in lowcomms
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs: dlm: fix race in lowcomms

This patch fixes a race between queue_work() in
_dlm_lowcomms_commit_msg() and srcu_read_unlock(). The queue_work() can
take the final reference of a dlm_msg and so msg->idx can contain
garbage which is signaled by the following warning:

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[  676.237052] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1060 at include/linux/srcu.h:189 dlm_lowcomms_commit_msg+0x41/0x50
[  676.238945] Modules linked in: dlm_locktorture torture rpcsec_gss_krb5 intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support qxl kvm_intel drm_ttm_helper vmw_vsock_virtio_transport kvm vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common ttm irqbypass crc32_pclmul joydev crc32c_intel serio_raw drm_kms_helper vsock virtio_scsi virtio_console virtio_balloon snd_pcm drm syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt snd_timer fb_sys_fops i2c_i801 lpc_ich snd i2c_smbus soundcore pcspkr
[  676.244227] CPU: 0 PID: 1060 Comm: lock_torture_wr Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3+ #1546
[  676.245216] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM/RHEL-AV, BIOS 1.16.0-2.module+el8.7.0+15506+033991b0 04/01/2014
[  676.246460] RIP: 0010:dlm_lowcomms_commit_msg+0x41/0x50
[  676.247132] Code: fe ff ff ff 75 24 48 c7 c6 bd 0f 49 bb 48 c7 c7 38 7c 01 bd e8 00 e7 ca ff 89 de 48 c7 c7 60 78 01 bd e8 42 3d cd ff 5b 5d c3 <0f> 0b eb d8 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48
[  676.249253] RSP: 0018:ffffa401c18ffc68 EFLAGS: 00010282
[  676.249855] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 00000000ffff8b76 RCX: 0000000000000006
[  676.250713] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffffbccf3a10 RDI: ffffffffbcc7b62e
[  676.251610] RBP: ffffa401c18ffc70 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
[  676.252481] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000005
[  676.253421] R13: ffff8b76786ec370 R14: ffff8b76786ec370 R15: ffff8b76786ec480
[  676.254257] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8b7777800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  676.255239] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  676.255897] CR2: 00005590205d88b8 CR3: 000000017656c003 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
[  676.256734] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  676.257567] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  676.258397] PKRU: 55555554
[  676.258729] Call Trace:
[  676.259063]  <TASK>
[  676.259354]  dlm_midcomms_commit_mhandle+0xcc/0x110
[  676.259964]  queue_bast+0x8b/0xb0
[  676.260423]  grant_pending_locks+0x166/0x1b0
[  676.261007]  _unlock_lock+0x75/0x90
[  676.261469]  unlock_lock.isra.57+0x62/0xa0
[  676.262009]  dlm_unlock+0x21e/0x330
[  676.262457]  ? lock_torture_stats+0x80/0x80 [dlm_locktorture]
[  676.263183]  torture_unlock+0x5a/0x90 [dlm_locktorture]
[  676.263815]  ? preempt_count_sub+0xba/0x100
[  676.264361]  ? complete+0x1d/0x60
[  676.264777]  lock_torture_writer+0xb8/0x150 [dlm_locktorture]
[  676.265555]  kthread+0x10a/0x130
[  676.266007]  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[  676.266616]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[  676.267097]  </TASK>
[  676.267381] irq event stamp: 9579855
[  676.267824] hardirqs last  enabled at (9579863): [<ffffffffbb14e6f8>] __up_console_sem+0x58/0x60
[  676.268896] hardirqs last disabled at (9579872): [<ffffffffbb14e6dd>] __up_console_sem+0x3d/0x60
[  676.270008] softirqs last  enabled at (9579798): [<ffffffffbc200349>] __do_softirq+0x349/0x4c7
[  676.271438] softirqs last disabled at (9579897): [<ffffffffbb0d54c0>] irq_exit_rcu+0xb0/0xf0
[  676.272796] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

I reproduced this warning with dlm_locktorture test which is currently
not upstream. However this patch fix the issue by make a additional
refcount between dlm_lowcomms_new_msg() and dlm_lowcomms_commit_msg().
In case of the race the kref_put() in dlm_lowcomms_commit_msg() will be
the final put.
Affected products: vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: unaffected
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: affected
Published: 2025-09-17T14:56:28.282Z