Bug 2323924 (CVE-2024-50126)

Summary: CVE-2024-50126 kernel: net: sched: use RCU read-side critical section in taprio_dump()
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the taprio_dump() function in the Linux kernel.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-11-05 18:02:32 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: sched: use RCU read-side critical section in taprio_dump()

Fix possible use-after-free in 'taprio_dump()' by adding RCU
read-side critical section there. Never seen on x86 but
found on a KASAN-enabled arm64 system when investigating
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b65e0af58423fc8a73aa:

[T15862] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in taprio_dump+0xa0c/0xbb0
[T15862] Read of size 4 at addr ffff0000d4bb88f8 by task repro/15862
[T15862]
[T15862] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 15862 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.11.0-rc1-00293-gdefaf1a2113a-dirty #2
[T15862] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20240524-5.fc40 05/24/2024
[T15862] Call trace:
[T15862]  dump_backtrace+0x20c/0x220
[T15862]  show_stack+0x2c/0x40
[T15862]  dump_stack_lvl+0xf8/0x174
[T15862]  print_report+0x170/0x4d8
[T15862]  kasan_report+0xb8/0x1d4
[T15862]  __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x20/0x2c
[T15862]  taprio_dump+0xa0c/0xbb0
[T15862]  tc_fill_qdisc+0x540/0x1020
[T15862]  qdisc_notify.isra.0+0x330/0x3a0
[T15862]  tc_modify_qdisc+0x7b8/0x1838
[T15862]  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x3c8/0xc20
[T15862]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x1f8/0x3d4
[T15862]  rtnetlink_rcv+0x28/0x40
[T15862]  netlink_unicast+0x51c/0x790
[T15862]  netlink_sendmsg+0x79c/0xc20
[T15862]  __sock_sendmsg+0xe0/0x1a0
[T15862]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x6c0/0x840
[T15862]  ___sys_sendmsg+0x1ac/0x1f0
[T15862]  __sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x1d0
[T15862]  __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x74/0xb0
[T15862]  invoke_syscall+0x88/0x2e0
[T15862]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xe4/0x2a0
[T15862]  do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60
[T15862]  el0_svc+0x50/0x184
[T15862]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c
[T15862]  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
[T15862]
[T15862] Allocated by task 15857:
[T15862]  kasan_save_stack+0x3c/0x70
[T15862]  kasan_save_track+0x20/0x3c
[T15862]  kasan_save_alloc_info+0x40/0x60
[T15862]  __kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0xe0
[T15862]  __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x194/0x334
[T15862]  taprio_change+0x45c/0x2fe0
[T15862]  tc_modify_qdisc+0x6a8/0x1838
[T15862]  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x3c8/0xc20
[T15862]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x1f8/0x3d4
[T15862]  rtnetlink_rcv+0x28/0x40
[T15862]  netlink_unicast+0x51c/0x790
[T15862]  netlink_sendmsg+0x79c/0xc20
[T15862]  __sock_sendmsg+0xe0/0x1a0
[T15862]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x6c0/0x840
[T15862]  ___sys_sendmsg+0x1ac/0x1f0
[T15862]  __sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x1d0
[T15862]  __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x74/0xb0
[T15862]  invoke_syscall+0x88/0x2e0
[T15862]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xe4/0x2a0
[T15862]  do_el0_svc+0x44/0x60
[T15862]  el0_svc+0x50/0x184
[T15862]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c
[T15862]  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
[T15862]
[T15862] Freed by task 6192:
[T15862]  kasan_save_stack+0x3c/0x70
[T15862]  kasan_save_track+0x20/0x3c
[T15862]  kasan_save_free_info+0x4c/0x80
[T15862]  poison_slab_object+0x110/0x160
[T15862]  __kasan_slab_free+0x3c/0x74
[T15862]  kfree+0x134/0x3c0
[T15862]  taprio_free_sched_cb+0x18c/0x220
[T15862]  rcu_core+0x920/0x1b7c
[T15862]  rcu_core_si+0x10/0x1c
[T15862]  handle_softirqs+0x2e8/0xd64
[T15862]  __do_softirq+0x14/0x20
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-11-05 21:17:38 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024110557-CVE-2024-50126-733b@gregkh/T
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:32:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966