linux-cve-announce - CVE-2021-46972: ovl: fix leaked dentry

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:47:32 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2021-46972: ovl: fix leaked dentry

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ovl: fix leaked dentry

Since commit 6815f479ca90 ("ovl: use only uppermetacopy state in
ovl_lookup()"), overlayfs doesn't put temporary dentry when there is a
metacopy error, which leads to dentry leaks when shutting down the related
superblock:

  overlayfs: refusing to follow metacopy origin for (/file0)
  ...
  BUG: Dentry (____ptrval____){i=3f33,n=file3}  still in use (1) [unmount of overlay overlay]
  ...
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 432 at umount_check.cold+0x107/0x14d
  CPU: 1 PID: 432 Comm: unmount-overlay Not tainted 5.12.0-rc5 #1
  ...
  RIP: 0010:umount_check.cold+0x107/0x14d
  ...
  Call Trace:
   d_walk+0x28c/0x950
   ? dentry_lru_isolate+0x2b0/0x2b0
   ? __kasan_slab_free+0x12/0x20
   do_one_tree+0x33/0x60
   shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x78/0x1d0
   generic_shutdown_super+0x70/0x440
   kill_anon_super+0x3e/0x70
   deactivate_locked_super+0xc4/0x160
   deactivate_super+0xfa/0x140
   cleanup_mnt+0x22e/0x370
   __cleanup_mnt+0x1a/0x30
   task_work_run+0x139/0x210
   do_exit+0xb0c/0x2820
   ? __kasan_check_read+0x1d/0x30
   ? find_held_lock+0x35/0x160
   ? lock_release+0x1b6/0x660
   ? mm_update_next_owner+0xa20/0xa20
   ? reacquire_held_locks+0x3f0/0x3f0
   ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp4+0x22/0x30
   do_group_exit+0x135/0x380
   __do_sys_exit_group.isra.0+0x20/0x20
   __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3c/0x50
   do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
  ...
  VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of overlay. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...

This fix has been tested with a syzkaller reproducer.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-46972 to this issue.

Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 6815f479ca90 and fixed in 5.10.35 with commit 71d58457a8af
	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 6815f479ca90 and fixed in 5.11.19 with commit cf3e3330bc57
	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 6815f479ca90 and fixed in 5.12.2 with commit d587cfaef72b
	Issue introduced in 5.8 with commit 6815f479ca90 and fixed in 5.13 with commit eaab1d45cdb4

Please see https://www.kernel.org or a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2021-46972
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.

Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/overlayfs/namei.c

Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71d58457a8afc650da5d3292a7f7029317654d95
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf3e3330bc5719fa9d658e3e2f596bde89344a94
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d587cfaef72b1b6f4b2774827123bce91f497cc8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eaab1d45cdb4bb0c846bd23c3d666d5b90af7b41