locking/qrwlock: Fix ordering in queued_write_lock_slowpath() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2021-46921
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: locking/qrwlock: Fix ordering in queued_write_lock_slowpath() While this code is executed with the wait_lock held, a reader can acquire the lock without holding wait_lock. The writer side loops checking the value with the atomic_cond_read_acquire(), but only truly acquires the lock when the compare-and-exchange is completed successfully which isn’t ordered. This exposes the window between the acquire and the cmpxchg to an A-B-A problem which allows reads following the lock acquisition to observe values speculatively before the write lock is truly acquired. We've seen a problem in epoll where the reader does a xchg while holding the read lock, but the writer can see a value change out from under it. Writer | Reader -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ep_scan_ready_list() | |- write_lock_irq() | |- queued_write_lock_slowpath() | |- atomic_cond_read_acquire() | | read_lock_irqsave(&ep->lock, flags); --> (observes value before unlock) | chain_epi_lockless() | | epi->next = xchg(&ep->ovflist, epi); | | read_unlock_irqrestore(&ep->lock, flags); | | | atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed() | |-- READ_ONCE(ep->ovflist); | A core can order the read of the ovflist ahead of the atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed(). Switching the cmpxchg to use acquire semantics addresses this issue at which point the atomic_cond_read can be switched to use relaxed semantics. [peterz: use try_cmpxchg()]

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-668 — Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected b519b56e378ee82caf9b079b04f5db87dedc3251 < 5902f9453a313be8fe78cbd7e7ca9dba9319fc6e ; affected b519b56e378ee82caf9b079b04f5db87dedc3251 < 82808cc026811fbc3ecf0c0b267a12a339eead56 ; affected b519b56e378ee82caf9b079b04f5db87dedc3251 < 82fa9ced35d88581cffa4a1c856fc41fca96d80a ; affected b519b56e378ee82caf9b079b04f5db87dedc3251 < d558fcdb17139728347bccc60a16af3e639649d2 ; affected b519b56e378ee82caf9b079b04f5db87dedc3251 < 84a24bf8c52e66b7ac89ada5e3cfbe72d65c1896
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.15 ; unaffected 0 < 4.15 ; unaffected 4.19.189 ≤ 4.19.* ; unaffected 5.4.115 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.33 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.11.17 ≤ 5.11.*

Sources

SourceLicence
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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD