linux-cve-announce - CVE-2021-46981: nbd: Fix NULL pointer in flush

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Message-ID: <2024022823-CVE-2021-46981-0fb9@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:14:31 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: gregkh@...nel.org
Subject: CVE-2021-46981: nbd: Fix NULL pointer in flush_workqueue

From: gregkh@...nel.org

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

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

nbd: Fix NULL pointer in flush_workqueue

Open /dev/nbdX first, the config_refs will be 1 and
the pointers in nbd_device are still null. Disconnect
/dev/nbdX, then reference a null recv_workq. The
protection by config_refs in nbd_genl_disconnect is useless.

[  656.366194] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
[  656.368943] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[  656.369844] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
[  656.370717] PGD 10cc87067 P4D 10cc87067 PUD 1074b4067 PMD 0
[  656.371693] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[  656.372242] CPU: 5 PID: 7977 Comm: nbd-client Not tainted 5.11.0-rc5-00040-g76c057c84d28 #1
[  656.373661] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20190727_073836-buildvm-ppc64le-16.ppc.fedoraproject.org-3.fc31 04/01/2014
[  656.375904] RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x29/0x60
[  656.376627] Code: 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 fd 48 83 05 6f d7 fe 08 01 e8 7a c3 ff ff 48 83 05 6a d7 fe 08 01 31 c0 65 48 8b 14 25 00 6d 01 00 <f0> 48 0f b1 55 d
[  656.378934] RSP: 0018:ffffc900005eb9b0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[  656.379350] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  656.379915] RDX: ffff888104cf2600 RSI: ffffffffaae8f452 RDI: 0000000000000020
[  656.380473] RBP: 0000000000000020 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88813bd6b318
[  656.381039] R10: 00000000000000c7 R11: fefefefefefefeff R12: ffff888102710b40
[  656.381599] R13: ffffc900005eb9e0 R14: ffffffffb2930680 R15: ffff88810770ef00
[  656.382166] FS:  00007fdf117ebb40(0000) GS:ffff88813bd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  656.382806] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  656.383261] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 0000000100c84000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[  656.383819] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  656.384370] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  656.384927] Call Trace:
[  656.385111]  flush_workqueue+0x92/0x6c0
[  656.385395]  nbd_disconnect_and_put+0x81/0xd0
[  656.385716]  nbd_genl_disconnect+0x125/0x2a0
[  656.386034]  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x102/0x1b0
[  656.386422]  genl_rcv_msg+0xfc/0x2b0
[  656.386685]  ? nbd_ioctl+0x490/0x490
[  656.386954]  ? genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x1b0/0x1b0
[  656.387354]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x62/0x180
[  656.387638]  genl_rcv+0x34/0x60
[  656.387874]  netlink_unicast+0x26d/0x590
[  656.388162]  netlink_sendmsg+0x398/0x6c0
[  656.388451]  ? netlink_rcv_skb+0x180/0x180
[  656.388750]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x1da/0x320
[  656.389038]  ? ____sys_recvmsg+0x130/0x220
[  656.389334]  ___sys_sendmsg+0x8e/0xf0
[  656.389605]  ? ___sys_recvmsg+0xa2/0xf0
[  656.389889]  ? handle_mm_fault+0x1671/0x21d0
[  656.390201]  __sys_sendmsg+0x6d/0xe0
[  656.390464]  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x23/0x30
[  656.390751]  do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70
[  656.391017]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

To fix it, just add if (nbd->recv_workq) to nbd_disconnect_and_put().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-46981 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit e9e006f5fcf2 and fixed in 5.4.120 with commit 1c4962df9388
	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit e9e006f5fcf2 and fixed in 5.10.38 with commit cde4b55cfb24
	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit e9e006f5fcf2 and fixed in 5.11.22 with commit b31d237796fd
	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit e9e006f5fcf2 and fixed in 5.12.5 with commit 54b78ba7e96e
	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit e9e006f5fcf2 and fixed in 5.13 with commit 79ebe9110fa4

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-2021-46981
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:
	drivers/block/nbd.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/1c4962df938891af9ab4775f5224ef8601764107
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cde4b55cfb24522dcbba80bbdb0c082303e76c43
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b31d237796fd618379ec8e0f4de3370b5e4aeee7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54b78ba7e96e5fe1edb8054e375d31a6c0dc60dc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79ebe9110fa458d58f1fceb078e2068d7ad37390