linux-cve-announce - CVE-2021-47163: tipc: wait and exit until all work queues are done

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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:16:39 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2021-47163: tipc: wait and exit until all work queues are done

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

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

tipc: wait and exit until all work queues are done

On some host, a crash could be triggered simply by repeating these
commands several times:

  # modprobe tipc
  # tipc bearer enable media udp name UDP1 localip 127.0.0.1
  # rmmod tipc

  [] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffc096bb00
  [] Workqueue: events 0xffffffffc096bb00
  [] Call Trace:
  []  ? process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
  []  ? worker_thread+0x30/0x390
  []  ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
  []  ? kthread+0x116/0x130
  []  ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
  []  ? ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

When removing the TIPC module, the UDP tunnel sock will be delayed to
release in a work queue as sock_release() can't be done in rtnl_lock().
If the work queue is schedule to run after the TIPC module is removed,
kernel will crash as the work queue function cleanup_beareri() code no
longer exists when trying to invoke it.

To fix it, this patch introduce a member wq_count in tipc_net to track
the numbers of work queues in schedule, and  wait and exit until all
work queues are done in tipc_exit_net().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-47163 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 4.1 with commit d0f91938bede and fixed in 5.4.124 with commit d1f76dfadaf8
	Issue introduced in 4.1 with commit d0f91938bede and fixed in 5.10.42 with commit 5195ec5e365a
	Issue introduced in 4.1 with commit d0f91938bede and fixed in 5.12.9 with commit b9f5b7ad4ac3
	Issue introduced in 4.1 with commit d0f91938bede and fixed in 5.13 with commit 04c26faa51d1

Please see https://www.kernel.org for 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-2021-47163
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:
	net/tipc/core.c
	net/tipc/core.h
	net/tipc/udp_media.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/d1f76dfadaf8f47ed1753f97dbcbd41c16215ffa
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5195ec5e365a2a9331bfeb585b613a6e94f98dba
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9f5b7ad4ac3af006443f535b1ce7bff1d130d7d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04c26faa51d1e2fe71cf13c45791f5174c37f986