io_uring: wait interruptibly for request completions on exit (Linux Linux)

CVE-2023-53461
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.16 % · percentile 5 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: wait interruptibly for request completions on exit WHen the ring exits, cleanup is done and the final cancelation and waiting on completions is done by io_ring_exit_work. That function is invoked by kworker, which doesn't take any signals. Because of that, it doesn't really matter if we wait for completions in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE or TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state. However, it does matter to the hung task detection checker! Normally we expect cancelations and completions to happen rather quickly. Some test cases, however, will exit the ring and park the owning task stopped (eg via SIGSTOP). If the owning task needs to run task_work to complete requests, then io_ring_exit_work won't make any progress until the task is runnable again. Hence io_ring_exit_work can trigger the hung task detection, which is particularly problematic if panic-on-hung-task is enabled. As the ring exit doesn't take signals to begin with, have it wait interruptibly rather than uninterruptibly. io_uring has a separate stuck-exit warning that triggers independently anyway, so we're not really missing anything by making this switch.

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:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 2b188cc1bb857a9d4701ae59aa7768b5124e262e < 28e649dc9947e6525c95e32aa9a8e147925e3f56 ; affected 2b188cc1bb857a9d4701ae59aa7768b5124e262e < 8e29835366138389bfad3b31ea06960d0a77bf77 ; affected 2b188cc1bb857a9d4701ae59aa7768b5124e262e < b50d6e06cca7b67a3d73ca660dda27662b76e6ea ; affected 2b188cc1bb857a9d4701ae59aa7768b5124e262e < 58e80cb68b057e974768792c34708c6957810486 ; affected 2b188cc1bb857a9d4701ae59aa7768b5124e262e < 4826c59453b3b4677d6bf72814e7ababdea86949
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.1 ; unaffected 0 < 5.1 ; unaffected 5.10.188 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.121 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.39 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.4.4 ≤ 6.4.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
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