linux-cve-announce - CVE-2021-47584: iocost: Fix divide-by-zero on donation from low hweight cgroup

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Message-ID: <2024061917-CVE-2021-47584-5246@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:54:23 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2021-47584: iocost: Fix divide-by-zero on donation from low hweight cgroup

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

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

iocost: Fix divide-by-zero on donation from low hweight cgroup

The donation calculation logic assumes that the donor has non-zero
after-donation hweight, so the lowest active hweight a donating cgroup can
have is 2 so that it can donate 1 while keeping the other 1 for itself.
Earlier, we only donated from cgroups with sizable surpluses so this
condition was always true. However, with the precise donation algorithm
implemented, f1de2439ec43 ("blk-iocost: revamp donation amount
determination") made the donation amount calculation exact enabling even low
hweight cgroups to donate.

This means that in rare occasions, a cgroup with active hweight of 1 can
enter donation calculation triggering the following warning and then a
divide-by-zero oops.

 WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 0 at block/blk-iocost.c:1928 transfer_surpluses.cold+0x0/0x53 [884/94867]
 ...
 RIP: 0010:transfer_surpluses.cold+0x0/0x53
 Code: 92 ff 48 c7 c7 28 d1 ab b5 65 48 8b 34 25 00 ae 01 00 48 81 c6 90 06 00 00 e8 8b 3f fe ff 48 c7 c0 ea ff ff ff e9 95 ff 92 ff <0f> 0b 48 c7 c7 30 da ab b5 e8 71 3f fe ff 4c 89 e8 4d 85 ed 74 0
4
 ...
 Call Trace:
  <IRQ>
  ioc_timer_fn+0x1043/0x1390
  call_timer_fn+0xa1/0x2c0
  __run_timers.part.0+0x1ec/0x2e0
  run_timer_softirq+0x35/0x70
 ...
 iocg: invalid donation weights in /a/b: active=1 donating=1 after=0

Fix it by excluding cgroups w/ active hweight < 2 from donating. Excluding
these extreme low hweight donations shouldn't affect work conservation in
any meaningful way.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-47584 to this issue.

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

	Issue introduced in 5.10 with commit f1de2439ec43 and fixed in 5.10.88 with commit a7c80674538f
	Issue introduced in 5.10 with commit f1de2439ec43 and fixed in 5.15.11 with commit 3a1a4eb57417
	Issue introduced in 5.10 with commit f1de2439ec43 and fixed in 5.16 with commit edaa26334c11

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-2021-47584
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:
	block/blk-iocost.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/a7c80674538f15f85d68138240aae440b8039519
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a1a4eb574178c21241a6200f4785572e661c472
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edaa26334c117a584add6053f48d63a988d25a6e