Bug 2355529 (CVE-2021-4454)

Summary: CVE-2021-4454 kernel: can: j1939: fix errant WARN_ON_ONCE in j1939_session_deactivate
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-03-27 17:05:42 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

can: j1939: fix errant WARN_ON_ONCE in j1939_session_deactivate

The conclusion "j1939_session_deactivate() should be called with a
session ref-count of at least 2" is incorrect. In some concurrent
scenarios, j1939_session_deactivate can be called with the session
ref-count less than 2. But there is not any problem because it
will check the session active state before session putting in
j1939_session_deactivate_locked().

Here is the concurrent scenario of the problem reported by syzbot
and my reproduction log.

        cpu0                            cpu1
                                j1939_xtp_rx_eoma
j1939_xtp_rx_abort_one
                                j1939_session_get_by_addr [kref == 2]
j1939_session_get_by_addr [kref == 3]
j1939_session_deactivate [kref == 2]
j1939_session_put [kref == 1]
				j1939_session_completed
				j1939_session_deactivate
				WARN_ON_ONCE(kref < 2)

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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 21 at net/can/j1939/transport.c:1088 j1939_session_deactivate+0x5f/0x70
CPU: 1 PID: 21 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 5.14.0-rc7+ #32
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:j1939_session_deactivate+0x5f/0x70
Call Trace:
 j1939_session_deactivate_activate_next+0x11/0x28
 j1939_xtp_rx_eoma+0x12a/0x180
 j1939_tp_recv+0x4a2/0x510
 j1939_can_recv+0x226/0x380
 can_rcv_filter+0xf8/0x220
 can_receive+0x102/0x220
 ? process_backlog+0xf0/0x2c0
 can_rcv+0x53/0xf0
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x67/0x90
 ? process_backlog+0x97/0x2c0
 __netif_receive_skb+0x22/0x80