Bug 2327170 (CVE-2024-50279)

Summary: CVE-2024-50279 kernel: dm cache: fix out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-11-19 02:01:29 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dm cache: fix out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing

dm-cache checks the dirty bits of the cache blocks to be dropped when
shrinking the fast device, but an index bug in bitset iteration causes
out-of-bounds access.

Reproduce steps:

1. create a cache device of 1024 cache blocks (128 bytes dirty bitset)

dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0"
dmsetup create cdata --table "0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192"
dmsetup create corig --table "0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144"
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct
dmsetup create cache --table "0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \
/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0"

2. shrink the fast device to 512 cache blocks, triggering out-of-bounds
   access to the dirty bitset (offset 0x80)

dmsetup suspend cache
dmsetup reload cdata --table "0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192"
dmsetup resume cdata
dmsetup resume cache

KASAN reports:

  BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in cache_preresume+0x269/0x7b0
  Read of size 8 at addr ffffc900000f3080 by task dmsetup/131

  (...snip...)
  The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at
   [ffffc900000f3000, ffffc900000f5000) created by:
   cache_ctr+0x176a/0x35f0

  (...snip...)
  Memory state around the buggy address:
   ffffc900000f2f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
   ffffc900000f3000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  >ffffc900000f3080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
                     ^
   ffffc900000f3100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
   ffffc900000f3180: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

Fix by making the index post-incremented.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-11-19 06:02:51 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024111939-CVE-2024-50279-d3f9@gregkh/T