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Message-ID: <2024052110-CVE-2023-52836-930a@gregkh> Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 17:32:12 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Subject: CVE-2023-52836: locking/ww_mutex/test: Fix potential workqueue corruption Description =========== In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: locking/ww_mutex/test: Fix potential workqueue corruption In some cases running with the test-ww_mutex code, I was seeing odd behavior where sometimes it seemed flush_workqueue was returning before all the work threads were finished. Often this would cause strange crashes as the mutexes would be freed while they were being used. Looking at the code, there is a lifetime problem as the controlling thread that spawns the work allocates the "struct stress" structures that are passed to the workqueue threads. Then when the workqueue threads are finished, they free the stress struct that was passed to them. Unfortunately the workqueue work_struct node is in the stress struct. Which means the work_struct is freed before the work thread returns and while flush_workqueue is waiting. It seems like a better idea to have the controlling thread both allocate and free the stress structures, so that we can be sure we don't corrupt the workqueue by freeing the structure prematurely. So this patch reworks the test to do so, and with this change I no longer see the early flush_workqueue returns. The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-52836 to this issue. Affected and fixed versions =========================== Fixed in 4.14.331 with commit d4d37c9e6a4d Fixed in 4.19.300 with commit d8267cabbe1b Fixed in 5.4.262 with commit dcd85e3c9293 Fixed in 5.10.202 with commit 9ed2d68b3925 Fixed in 5.15.140 with commit e89d0ed45a41 Fixed in 6.1.64 with commit c56df79d6867 Fixed in 6.5.13 with commit e36407713163 Fixed in 6.6.3 with commit 304a2c4aad0f Fixed in 6.7 with commit bccdd808902f 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-2023-52836 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: kernel/locking/test-ww_mutex.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/d4d37c9e6a4dbcca958dabd99216550525c7e389 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8267cabbe1bed15ccf8b0e684c528bf8eeef715 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcd85e3c929368076a7592b27f541e0da8b427f5 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ed2d68b3925145f5f51c46559484881d6082f75 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e89d0ed45a419c485bae999426ecf92697cbdda3 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c56df79d68677cf062da1b6e3b33e74299a92dfc https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e36407713163363e65566e7af0abe207d5f59a0c https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/304a2c4aad0fff887ce493e4197bf9cbaf394479 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bccdd808902f8c677317cec47c306e42b93b849e
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