Bug 2355522 (CVE-2023-52982) - CVE-2023-52982 kernel: fscache: Use wait_on_bit() to wait for the freeing of relinquished volume
Summary: CVE-2023-52982 kernel: fscache: Use wait_on_bit() to wait for the freeing of ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-52982
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-03-27 17:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-29 14:13 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-03-27 17:05:21 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fscache: Use wait_on_bit() to wait for the freeing of relinquished volume

The freeing of relinquished volume will wake up the pending volume
acquisition by using wake_up_bit(), however it is mismatched with
wait_var_event() used in fscache_wait_on_volume_collision() and it will
never wake up the waiter in the wait-queue because these two functions
operate on different wait-queues.

According to the implementation in fscache_wait_on_volume_collision(),
if the wake-up of pending acquisition is delayed longer than 20 seconds
(e.g., due to the delay of on-demand fd closing), the first
wait_var_event_timeout() will timeout and the following wait_var_event()
will hang forever as shown below:

 FS-Cache: Potential volume collision new=00000024 old=00000022
 ......
 INFO: task mount:1148 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
       Not tainted 6.1.0-rc6+ #1
 task:mount           state:D stack:0     pid:1148  ppid:1
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  __schedule+0x2f6/0xb80
  schedule+0x67/0xe0
  fscache_wait_on_volume_collision.cold+0x80/0x82
  __fscache_acquire_volume+0x40d/0x4e0
  erofs_fscache_register_volume+0x51/0xe0 [erofs]
  erofs_fscache_register_fs+0x19c/0x240 [erofs]
  erofs_fc_fill_super+0x746/0xaf0 [erofs]
  vfs_get_super+0x7d/0x100
  get_tree_nodev+0x16/0x20
  erofs_fc_get_tree+0x20/0x30 [erofs]
  vfs_get_tree+0x24/0xb0
  path_mount+0x2fa/0xa90
  do_mount+0x7c/0xa0
  __x64_sys_mount+0x8b/0xe0
  do_syscall_64+0x30/0x60
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Considering that wake_up_bit() is more selective, so fix it by using
wait_on_bit() instead of wait_var_event() to wait for the freeing of
relinquished volume. In addition because waitqueue_active() is used in
wake_up_bit() and clear_bit() doesn't imply any memory barrier, use
clear_and_wake_up_bit() to add the missing memory barrier between
cursor->flags and waitqueue_active().


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