linux-cve-announce - CVE-2021-47242: mptcp: fix soft lookup in subflow_error

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Message-ID: <2024052142-CVE-2021-47242-2015@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:19:56 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2021-47242: mptcp: fix soft lookup in subflow_error_report()

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

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

mptcp: fix soft lookup in subflow_error_report()

Maxim reported a soft lookup in subflow_error_report():

 watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:0]
 RIP: 0010:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
 RSP: 0018:ffffa859c0003bc0 EFLAGS: 00000202
 RAX: 0000000000000101 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: ffff9195c2772d88 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff9195c2772d88
 RBP: ffff9195c2772d00 R08: 00000000000067b0 R09: c6e31da9eb1e44f4
 R10: ffff9195ef379700 R11: ffff9195edb50710 R12: ffff9195c2772d88
 R13: ffff9195f500e3d0 R14: ffff9195ef379700 R15: ffff9195ef379700
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff91961f400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000000c000407000 CR3: 0000000002988000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
 Call Trace:
  <IRQ>
 _raw_spin_lock_bh
 subflow_error_report
 mptcp_subflow_data_available
 __mptcp_move_skbs_from_subflow
 mptcp_data_ready
 tcp_data_queue
 tcp_rcv_established
 tcp_v4_do_rcv
 tcp_v4_rcv
 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu
 ip_local_deliver_finish
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core
 netif_receive_skb
 rtl8139_poll 8139too
 __napi_poll
 net_rx_action
 __do_softirq
 __irq_exit_rcu
 common_interrupt
  </IRQ>

The calling function - mptcp_subflow_data_available() - can be invoked
from different contexts:
- plain ssk socket lock
- ssk socket lock + mptcp_data_lock
- ssk socket lock + mptcp_data_lock + msk socket lock.

Since subflow_error_report() tries to acquire the mptcp_data_lock, the
latter two call chains will cause soft lookup.

This change addresses the issue moving the error reporting call to
outer functions, where the held locks list is known and the we can
acquire only the needed one.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-47242 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 15cc10453398 and fixed in 5.12.13 with commit 27ef25c72373
	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 15cc10453398 and fixed in 5.13 with commit 499ada507336
	Issue introduced in 5.11.12 with commit c8ad65cb5051

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-2021-47242
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/mptcp/protocol.c
	net/mptcp/subflow.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/27ef25c72373222aaa5fe7b5cd890ae9cfb89a8d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/499ada5073361c631f2a3c4a8aed44d53b6f82ec