Bug 2297585 (CVE-2024-41001)

Summary: CVE-2024-41001 kernel: io_uring/sqpoll: work around a potential audit memory leak
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-07-12 13:49:54 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring/sqpoll: work around a potential audit memory leak

kmemleak complains that there's a memory leak related to connect
handling:

unreferenced object 0xffff0001093bdf00 (size 128):
comm "iou-sqp-455", pid 457, jiffies 4294894164
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
02 00 fa ea 7f 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
backtrace (crc 2e481b1a):
[<00000000c0a26af4>] kmemleak_alloc+0x30/0x38
[<000000009c30bb45>] kmalloc_trace+0x228/0x358
[<000000009da9d39f>] __audit_sockaddr+0xd0/0x138
[<0000000089a93e34>] move_addr_to_kernel+0x1a0/0x1f8
[<000000000b4e80e6>] io_connect_prep+0x1ec/0x2d4
[<00000000abfbcd99>] io_submit_sqes+0x588/0x1e48
[<00000000e7c25e07>] io_sq_thread+0x8a4/0x10e4
[<00000000d999b491>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

which can can happen if:

1) The command type does something on the prep side that triggers an
   audit call.
2) The thread hasn't done any operations before this that triggered
   an audit call inside ->issue(), where we have audit_uring_entry()
   and audit_uring_exit().

Work around this by issuing a blanket NOP operation before the SQPOLL
does anything.
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2024-11-12 09:36:23 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:9315 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9315