Bug 2426218 (CVE-2023-54195)

Summary: CVE-2023-54195 kernel: rxrpc: Fix timeout of a call that hasn't yet been granted a channel
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-30 13:17:12 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rxrpc: Fix timeout of a call that hasn't yet been granted a channel

afs_make_call() calls rxrpc_kernel_begin_call() to begin a call (which may
get stalled in the background waiting for a connection to become
available); it then calls rxrpc_kernel_set_max_life() to set the timeouts -
but that starts the call timer so the call timer might then expire before
we get a connection assigned - leading to the following oops if the call
stalled:

	BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
	...
	CPU: 1 PID: 5111 Comm: krxrpcio/0 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7-build3+ #701
	RIP: 0010:rxrpc_alloc_txbuf+0xc0/0x157
	...
	Call Trace:
	 <TASK>
	 rxrpc_send_ACK+0x50/0x13b
	 rxrpc_input_call_event+0x16a/0x67d
	 rxrpc_io_thread+0x1b6/0x45f
	 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x1f/0x35
	 ? rxrpc_input_packet+0x519/0x519
	 kthread+0xe7/0xef
	 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x1b/0x1b
	 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

Fix this by noting the timeouts in struct rxrpc_call when the call is
created.  The timer will be started when the first packet is transmitted.

It shouldn't be possible to trigger this directly from userspace through
AF_RXRPC as sendmsg() will return EBUSY if the call is in the
waiting-for-conn state if it dropped out of the wait due to a signal.