CVE-2017-12190 (published 2017-11-22T18:29Z)

The bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user functions in block/bio.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 do unbalanced refcounting when a SCSI I/O vector has small consecutive buffers belonging to the same page. The bio_add_pc_page function merges them into one, but the page reference is never dropped. This causes a memory leak and possible system lockup (exploitable against the host OS by a guest OS user, if a SCSI disk is passed through to a virtual machine) due to an out-of-memory condition.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 6.5, MEDIUM (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-400
cwe_name: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
description: The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
extended_description: 
            Limited resources include memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. If an attacker can trigger the allocation of these limited resources, but the number or size of the resources is not controlled, then the attacker could cause a denial of service that consumes all available resources. This would prevent valid users from accessing the product, and it could potentially have an impact on the surrounding environment. For example, a memory exhaustion attack against an application could slow down the application as well as its host operating system.
            There are at least three distinct scenarios which can commonly lead to resource exhaustion:
               
                  Lack of throttling for the number of allocated resources
                  Losing all references to a resource before reaching the shutdown stage
                  Not closing/returning a resource after processing
               
            Resource exhaustion problems are often result due to an incorrect implementation of the following situations:
               
                  Error conditions and other exceptional circumstances.
                  Confusion over which part of the program is responsible for releasing the resource.
               
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Vitaly Mayatskikh
author_date: 2017-09-22 01:18:39-04:00
msg: fix unbalanced page refcounting in bio_map_user_iov

bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user do unbalanced pages refcounting if
IO vector has small consecutive buffers belonging to the same page.
bio_add_pc_page merges them into one, but the page reference is never
dropped.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: bio.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1383,6 +1383,7 @@ struct bio *bio_map_user_iov(struct request_queue *q,
 		offset = offset_in_page(uaddr);
 		for (j = cur_page; j < page_limit; j++) {
 			unsigned int bytes = PAGE_SIZE - offset;
+			unsigned short prev_bi_vcnt = bio->bi_vcnt;
 
 			if (len <= 0)
 				break;
@@ -1397,6 +1398,13 @@ struct bio *bio_map_user_iov(struct request_queue *q,
 					    bytes)
 				break;
 
+			/*
+			 * check if vector was merged with previous
+			 * drop page reference if needed
+			 */
+			if (bio->bi_vcnt == prev_bi_vcnt)
+				put_page(pages[j]);
+
 			len -= bytes;
 			offset = 0;
 		}

programming_language: C
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Al Viro
author_date: 2017-09-23 15:51:23-04:00
msg: more bio_map_user_iov() leak fixes

we need to take care of failure exit as well - pages already
in bio should be dropped by analogue of bio_unmap_pages(),
since their refcounts had been bumped only once per reference
in bio.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: bio.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1331,6 +1331,7 @@ struct bio *bio_map_user_iov(struct request_queue *q,
 	int ret, offset;
 	struct iov_iter i;
 	struct iovec iov;
+	struct bio_vec *bvec;
 
 	iov_for_each(iov, i, *iter) {
 		unsigned long uaddr = (unsigned long) iov.iov_base;
@@ -1375,7 +1376,12 @@ struct bio *bio_map_user_iov(struct request_queue *q,
 		ret = get_user_pages_fast(uaddr, local_nr_pages,
 				(iter->type & WRITE) != WRITE,
 				&pages[cur_page]);
-		if (ret < local_nr_pages) {
+		if (unlikely(ret < local_nr_pages)) {
+			for (j = cur_page; j < page_limit; j++) {
+				if (!pages[j])
+					break;
+				put_page(pages[j]);
+			}
 			ret = -EFAULT;
 			goto out_unmap;
 		}
@@ -1431,10 +1437,8 @@ struct bio *bio_map_user_iov(struct request_queue *q,
 	return bio;
 
  out_unmap:
-	for (j = 0; j < nr_pages; j++) {
-		if (!pages[j])
-			break;
-		put_page(pages[j]);
+	bio_for_each_segment_all(bvec, bio, j) {
+		put_page(bvec->bv_page);
 	}
  out:
 	kfree(pages);

programming_language: C