Bug 2360231 (CVE-2025-22036)

Summary: CVE-2025-22036 kernel: exfat: fix random stack corruption after get_block
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-16 15:03:39 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

exfat: fix random stack corruption after get_block

When get_block is called with a buffer_head allocated on the stack, such
as do_mpage_readpage, stack corruption due to buffer_head UAF may occur in
the following race condition situation.

     <CPU 0>                      <CPU 1>
mpage_read_folio
  <<bh on stack>>
  do_mpage_readpage
    exfat_get_block
      bh_read
        __bh_read
	  get_bh(bh)
          submit_bh
          wait_on_buffer
                              ...
                              end_buffer_read_sync
                                __end_buffer_read_notouch
                                   unlock_buffer
          <<keep going>>
        ...
      ...
    ...
  ...
<<bh is not valid out of mpage_read_folio>>
   .
   .
another_function
  <<variable A on stack>>
                                   put_bh(bh)
                                     atomic_dec(bh->b_count)
  * stack corruption here *

This patch returns -EAGAIN if a folio does not have buffers when bh_read
needs to be called. By doing this, the caller can fallback to functions
like block_read_full_folio(), create a buffer_head in the folio, and then
call get_block again.

Let's do not call bh_read() with on-stack buffer_head.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-04-17 12:26:30 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025041658-CVE-2025-22036-6469@gregkh/T