linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-21737: ceph: fix memory leak in ceph_mds_auth

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Message-ID: <2025022659-CVE-2025-21737-db6e@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:11:19 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-21737: ceph: fix memory leak in ceph_mds_auth_match()

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

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

ceph: fix memory leak in ceph_mds_auth_match()

We now free the temporary target path substring allocation on every
possible branch, instead of omitting the default branch.  In some
cases, a memory leak occured, which could rapidly crash the system
(depending on how many file accesses were attempted).

This was detected in production because it caused a continuous memory
growth, eventually triggering kernel OOM and completely hard-locking
the kernel.

Relevant kmemleak stacktrace:

    unreferenced object 0xffff888131e69900 (size 128):
      comm "git", pid 66104, jiffies 4295435999
      hex dump (first 32 bytes):
        76 6f 6c 75 6d 65 73 2f 63 6f 6e 74 61 69 6e 65  volumes/containe
        72 73 2f 67 69 74 65 61 2f 67 69 74 65 61 2f 67  rs/gitea/gitea/g
      backtrace (crc 2f3bb450):
        [<ffffffffaa68fb49>] __kmalloc_noprof+0x359/0x510
        [<ffffffffc32bf1df>] ceph_mds_check_access+0x5bf/0x14e0 [ceph]
        [<ffffffffc3235722>] ceph_open+0x312/0xd80 [ceph]
        [<ffffffffaa7dd786>] do_dentry_open+0x456/0x1120
        [<ffffffffaa7e3729>] vfs_open+0x79/0x360
        [<ffffffffaa832875>] path_openat+0x1de5/0x4390
        [<ffffffffaa834fcc>] do_filp_open+0x19c/0x3c0
        [<ffffffffaa7e44a1>] do_sys_openat2+0x141/0x180
        [<ffffffffaa7e4945>] __x64_sys_open+0xe5/0x1a0
        [<ffffffffac2cc2f7>] do_syscall_64+0xb7/0x210
        [<ffffffffac400130>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

It can be triggered by mouting a subdirectory of a CephFS filesystem,
and then trying to access files on this subdirectory with an auth token
using a path-scoped capability:

    $ ceph auth get client.services
    [client.services]
            key = REDACTED
            caps mds = "allow rw fsname=cephfs path=/volumes/"
            caps mon = "allow r fsname=cephfs"
            caps osd = "allow rw tag cephfs data=cephfs"

    $ cat /proc/self/mounts
    services@[REDACTED].cephfs=/volumes/containers /ceph/containers ceph rw,noatime,name=services,secret=<hidden>,ms_mode=prefer-crc,mount_timeout=300,acl,mon_addr=[REDACTED]:3300,recover_session=clean 0 0

    $ seq 1 1000000 | xargs -P32 --replace={} touch /ceph/containers/file-{} && \
    seq 1 1000000 | xargs -P32 --replace={} cat /ceph/containers/file-{}

[ idryomov: combine if statements, rename rc to path_matched and make
            it a bool, formatting ]

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-21737 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.10 with commit 596afb0b8933ba6ed7227adcc538db26feb25c74 and fixed in 6.12.14 with commit 146109fe936ac07f8f60cd6267543688985b96bc
	Issue introduced in 6.10 with commit 596afb0b8933ba6ed7227adcc538db26feb25c74 and fixed in 6.13.3 with commit 2b6086c5efe5c7bd6e0eb440d96c26ca0d20d9d7
	Issue introduced in 6.10 with commit 596afb0b8933ba6ed7227adcc538db26feb25c74 and fixed in 6.14-rc1 with commit 3b7d93db450e9d8ead80d75e2a303248f1528c35

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-2025-21737
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:
	fs/ceph/mds_client.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/146109fe936ac07f8f60cd6267543688985b96bc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b6086c5efe5c7bd6e0eb440d96c26ca0d20d9d7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b7d93db450e9d8ead80d75e2a303248f1528c35