Message-ID: <2025022629-CVE-2022-49266-3d45@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:57:51 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49266: block: fix rq-qos breakage from skipping rq_qos_done_bio()

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

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

block: fix rq-qos breakage from skipping rq_qos_done_bio()

a647a524a467 ("block: don't call rq_qos_ops->done_bio if the bio isn't
tracked") made bio_endio() skip rq_qos_done_bio() if BIO_TRACKED is not set.
While this fixed a potential oops, it also broke blk-iocost by skipping the
done_bio callback for merged bios.

Before, whether a bio goes through rq_qos_throttle() or rq_qos_merge(),
rq_qos_done_bio() would be called on the bio on completion with BIO_TRACKED
distinguishing the former from the latter. rq_qos_done_bio() is not called
for bios which wenth through rq_qos_merge(). This royally confuses
blk-iocost as the merged bios never finish and are considered perpetually
in-flight.

One reliably reproducible failure mode is an intermediate cgroup geting
stuck active preventing its children from being activated due to the
leaf-only rule, leading to loss of control. The following is from
resctl-bench protection scenario which emulates isolating a web server like
workload from a memory bomb run on an iocost configuration which should
yield a reasonable level of protection.

  # cat /sys/block/nvme2n1/device/model
  Samsung SSD 970 PRO 512GB
  # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/io.cost.model
  259:0 ctrl=user model=linear rbps=834913556 rseqiops=93622 rrandiops=102913 wbps=618985353 wseqiops=72325 wrandiops=71025
  # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/io.cost.qos
  259:0 enable=1 ctrl=user rpct=95.00 rlat=18776 wpct=95.00 wlat=8897 min=60.00 max=100.00
  # resctl-bench -m 29.6G -r out.json run protection::scenario=mem-hog,loops=1
  ...
  Memory Hog Summary
  ==================

  IO Latency: R p50=242u:336u/2.5m p90=794u:1.4m/7.5m p99=2.7m:8.0m/62.5m max=8.0m:36.4m/350m
              W p50=221u:323u/1.5m p90=709u:1.2m/5.5m p99=1.5m:2.5m/9.5m max=6.9m:35.9m/350m

  Isolation and Request Latency Impact Distributions:

                min   p01   p05   p10   p25   p50   p75   p90   p95   p99   max  mean stdev
  isol%       15.90 15.90 15.90 40.05 57.24 59.07 60.01 74.63 74.63 90.35 90.35 58.12 15.82
  lat-imp%        0     0     0     0     0  4.55 14.68 15.54 233.5 548.1 548.1 53.88 143.6

  Result: isol=58.12:15.82% lat_imp=53.88%:143.6 work_csv=100.0% missing=3.96%

The isolation result of 58.12% is close to what this device would show
without any IO control.

Fix it by introducing a new flag BIO_QOS_MERGED to mark merged bios and
calling rq_qos_done_bio() on them too. For consistency and clarity, rename
BIO_TRACKED to BIO_QOS_THROTTLED. The flag checks are moved into
rq_qos_done_bio() so that it's next to the code paths that set the flags.

With the patch applied, the above same benchmark shows:

  # resctl-bench -m 29.6G -r out.json run protection::scenario=mem-hog,loops=1
  ...
  Memory Hog Summary
  ==================

  IO Latency: R p50=123u:84.4u/985u p90=322u:256u/2.5m p99=1.6m:1.4m/9.5m max=11.1m:36.0m/350m
              W p50=429u:274u/995u p90=1.7m:1.3m/4.5m p99=3.4m:2.7m/11.5m max=7.9m:5.9m/26.5m

  Isolation and Request Latency Impact Distributions:

                min   p01   p05   p10   p25   p50   p75   p90   p95   p99   max  mean stdev
  isol%       84.91 84.91 89.51 90.73 92.31 94.49 96.36 98.04 98.71 100.0 100.0 94.42  2.81
  lat-imp%        0     0     0     0     0  2.81  5.73 11.11 13.92 17.53 22.61  4.10  4.68

  Result: isol=94.42:2.81% lat_imp=4.10%:4.68 work_csv=58.34% missing=0%

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49266 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit a647a524a46736786c95cdb553a070322ca096e3 and fixed in 5.15.54 with commit af9452dfdba4bf7359ef7645eee2d243a1df0649
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit a647a524a46736786c95cdb553a070322ca096e3 and fixed in 5.16.19 with commit dbd20bb904ad5731aaca8d009367a930d6ada111
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit a647a524a46736786c95cdb553a070322ca096e3 and fixed in 5.17.2 with commit 09737db4c891eba25e6f6383a7c38afd4acc883f
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit a647a524a46736786c95cdb553a070322ca096e3 and fixed in 5.18 with commit aa1b46dcdc7baaf5fec0be25782ef24b26aa209e
	Issue introduced in 5.14.11 with commit 004b8f8a691205a93d9e80d98b786b2b97424d6e

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-2022-49266
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/bio.c
	block/blk-iolatency.c
	block/blk-rq-qos.h
	include/linux/blk_types.h


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/af9452dfdba4bf7359ef7645eee2d243a1df0649
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbd20bb904ad5731aaca8d009367a930d6ada111
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09737db4c891eba25e6f6383a7c38afd4acc883f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa1b46dcdc7baaf5fec0be25782ef24b26aa209e

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