Bug 2334537 (CVE-2024-56672) - CVE-2024-56672 kernel: blk-cgroup: Fix UAF in blkcg_unpin_online()
Summary: CVE-2024-56672 kernel: blk-cgroup: Fix UAF in blkcg_unpin_online()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-56672
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2024-12-27 16:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-01-22 16:58 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-27 16:02:06 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

blk-cgroup: Fix UAF in blkcg_unpin_online()

blkcg_unpin_online() walks up the blkcg hierarchy putting the online pin. To
walk up, it uses blkcg_parent(blkcg) but it was calling that after
blkcg_destroy_blkgs(blkcg) which could free the blkcg, leading to the
following UAF:

  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in blkcg_unpin_online+0x15a/0x270
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881057678c0 by task kworker/9:1/117

  CPU: 9 UID: 0 PID: 117 Comm: kworker/9:1 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1-work-00182-gb8f52214c61a-dirty #48
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
  Workqueue: cgwb_release cgwb_release_workfn
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   dump_stack_lvl+0x27/0x80
   print_report+0x151/0x710
   kasan_report+0xc0/0x100
   blkcg_unpin_online+0x15a/0x270
   cgwb_release_workfn+0x194/0x480
   process_scheduled_works+0x71b/0xe20
   worker_thread+0x82a/0xbd0
   kthread+0x242/0x2c0
   ret_from_fork+0x33/0x70
   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
   </TASK>
  ...
  Freed by task 1944:
   kasan_save_track+0x2b/0x70
   kasan_save_free_info+0x3c/0x50
   __kasan_slab_free+0x33/0x50
   kfree+0x10c/0x330
   css_free_rwork_fn+0xe6/0xb30
   process_scheduled_works+0x71b/0xe20
   worker_thread+0x82a/0xbd0
   kthread+0x242/0x2c0
   ret_from_fork+0x33/0x70
   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Note that the UAF is not easy to trigger as the free path is indirected
behind a couple RCU grace periods and a work item execution. I could only
trigger it with artifical msleep() injected in blkcg_unpin_online().

Fix it by reading the parent pointer before destroying the blkcg's blkg's.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-29 04:30:56 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122755-CVE-2024-56672-8d29@gregkh/T


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