CVE-2017-6348 (published 2017-03-01T20:59Z)

The hashbin_delete function in net/irda/irqueue.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.13 improperly manages lock dropping, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via crafted operations on IrDA devices.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 5.5, MEDIUM (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: NVD-CWE-noinfo
cwe_name: Insufficient Information
description: There is insufficient information about the issue to classify it; details are unkown or unspecified.
extended_description: Insufficient Information

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: David S. Miller
author_date: 2017-02-17 16:19:39-05:00
msg: irda: Fix lockdep annotations in hashbin_delete().

A nested lock depth was added to the hasbin_delete() code but it
doesn't actually work some well and results in tons of lockdep splats.

Fix the code instead to properly drop the lock around the operation
and just keep peeking the head of the hashbin queue.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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: irqueue.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -383,9 +383,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hashbin_new);
  *    for deallocating this structure if it's complex. If not the user can
  *    just supply kfree, which should take care of the job.
  */
-#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
-static int hashbin_lock_depth = 0;
-#endif
 int hashbin_delete( hashbin_t* hashbin, FREE_FUNC free_func)
 {
 	irda_queue_t* queue;
@@ -396,22 +393,27 @@ int hashbin_delete( hashbin_t* hashbin, FREE_FUNC free_func)
 	IRDA_ASSERT(hashbin->magic == HB_MAGIC, return -1;);
 
 	/* Synchronize */
-	if ( hashbin->hb_type & HB_LOCK ) {
-		spin_lock_irqsave_nested(&hashbin->hb_spinlock, flags,
-					 hashbin_lock_depth++);
-	}
+	if (hashbin->hb_type & HB_LOCK)
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&hashbin->hb_spinlock, flags);
 
 	/*
 	 *  Free the entries in the hashbin, TODO: use hashbin_clear when
 	 *  it has been shown to work
 	 */
 	for (i = 0; i < HASHBIN_SIZE; i ++ ) {
-		queue = dequeue_first((irda_queue_t**) &hashbin->hb_queue[i]);
-		while (queue ) {
-			if (free_func)
-				(*free_func)(queue);
-			queue = dequeue_first(
-				(irda_queue_t**) &hashbin->hb_queue[i]);
+		while (1) {
+			queue = dequeue_first((irda_queue_t**) &hashbin->hb_queue[i]);
+
+			if (!queue)
+				break;
+
+			if (free_func) {
+				if (hashbin->hb_type & HB_LOCK)
+					spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hashbin->hb_spinlock, flags);
+				free_func(queue);
+				if (hashbin->hb_type & HB_LOCK)
+					spin_lock_irqsave(&hashbin->hb_spinlock, flags);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -420,12 +422,8 @@ int hashbin_delete( hashbin_t* hashbin, FREE_FUNC free_func)
 	hashbin->magic = ~HB_MAGIC;
 
 	/* Release lock */
-	if ( hashbin->hb_type & HB_LOCK) {
+	if (hashbin->hb_type & HB_LOCK)
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hashbin->hb_spinlock, flags);
-#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
-		hashbin_lock_depth--;
-#endif
-	}
 
 	/*
 	 *  Free the hashbin structure

programming_language: C