driver core: fix deadlock in __device_attach (Linux Linux)

CVE-2022-49371
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.21 % · percentile 12 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: driver core: fix deadlock in __device_attach In __device_attach function, The lock holding logic is as follows: ... __device_attach device_lock(dev) // get lock dev async_schedule_dev(__device_attach_async_helper, dev); // func async_schedule_node async_schedule_node_domain(func) entry = kzalloc(sizeof(struct async_entry), GFP_ATOMIC); /* when fail or work limit, sync to execute func, but __device_attach_async_helper will get lock dev as well, which will lead to A-A deadlock. */ if (!entry || atomic_read(&entry_count) > MAX_WORK) { func; else queue_work_node(node, system_unbound_wq, &entry->work) device_unlock(dev) As shown above, when it is allowed to do async probes, because of out of memory or work limit, async work is not allowed, to do sync execute instead. it will lead to A-A deadlock because of __device_attach_async_helper getting lock dev. To fix the deadlock, move the async_schedule_dev outside device_lock, as we can see, in async_schedule_node_domain, the parameter of queue_work_node is system_unbound_wq, so it can accept concurrent operations. which will also not change the code logic, and will not lead to deadlock.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 765230b5f084863183aa8adb3405ab3f32c0b16e < 593b595332bd2d65e1a5c1ae7897996c157f5468 ; affected 765230b5f084863183aa8adb3405ab3f32c0b16e < 36ee9ffca8ef56c302f2855c4a5fccf61c0c1ada ; affected 765230b5f084863183aa8adb3405ab3f32c0b16e < df6de52b80aa3b46f5ac804412355ffe2e1df93e ; affected 765230b5f084863183aa8adb3405ab3f32c0b16e < d53a227bfcd5160ce1b61d9954901968a20651e7 ; affected 765230b5f084863183aa8adb3405ab3f32c0b16e < 34fdd9b7def9d2fcb71bb7b0bc4848dd7313767e ; affected 765230b5f084863183aa8adb3405ab3f32c0b16e < b232b02bf3c205b13a26dcec08e53baddd8e59ed
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.2 ; unaffected 0 < 4.2 ; unaffected 5.4.198 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.122 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.47 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 5.17.15 ≤ 5.17.*

Sources

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