Bug 2347747 (CVE-2021-47638) - CVE-2021-47638 kernel: ubifs: rename_whiteout: Fix double free for whiteout_ui->data
Summary: CVE-2021-47638 kernel: ubifs: rename_whiteout: Fix double free for whiteout_u...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2021-47638
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-02-26 03:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-03-03 03:52 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:05:21 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ubifs: rename_whiteout: Fix double free for whiteout_ui->data

'whiteout_ui->data' will be freed twice if space budget fail for
rename whiteout operation as following process:

rename_whiteout
  dev = kmalloc
  whiteout_ui->data = dev
  kfree(whiteout_ui->data)  // Free first time
  iput(whiteout)
    ubifs_free_inode
      kfree(ui->data)	    // Double free!

KASAN reports:
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BUG: KASAN: double-free or invalid-free in ubifs_free_inode+0x4f/0x70
Call Trace:
  kfree+0x117/0x490
  ubifs_free_inode+0x4f/0x70 [ubifs]
  i_callback+0x30/0x60
  rcu_do_batch+0x366/0xac0
  __do_softirq+0x133/0x57f

Allocated by task 1506:
  kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x3c2/0x7a0
  do_rename+0x9b7/0x1150 [ubifs]
  ubifs_rename+0x106/0x1f0 [ubifs]
  do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80

Freed by task 1506:
  kfree+0x117/0x490
  do_rename.cold+0x53/0x8a [ubifs]
  ubifs_rename+0x106/0x1f0 [ubifs]
  do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88810238bed8 which
belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8
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Let ubifs_free_inode() free 'whiteout_ui->data'. BTW, delete unused
assignment 'whiteout_ui->data_len = 0', process 'ubifs_evict_inode()
-> ubifs_jnl_delete_inode() -> ubifs_jnl_write_inode()' doesn't need it
(because 'inc_nlink(whiteout)' won't be excuted by 'goto out_release',
 and the nlink of whiteout inode is 0).

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 19:18:55 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022647-CVE-2021-47638-5ede@gregkh/T


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