linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-49759: VMCI: Use threaded irqs instead of tasklets

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Message-ID: <2025032702-CVE-2022-49759-5392@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:43:17 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49759: VMCI: Use threaded irqs instead of tasklets

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

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

VMCI: Use threaded irqs instead of tasklets

The vmci_dispatch_dgs() tasklet function calls vmci_read_data()
which uses wait_event() resulting in invalid sleep in an atomic
context (and therefore potentially in a deadlock).

Use threaded irqs to fix this issue and completely remove usage
of tasklets.

[   20.264639] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c:145
[   20.264643] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 762, name: vmtoolsd
[   20.264645] preempt_count: 101, expected: 0
[   20.264646] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
[   20.264647] 1 lock held by vmtoolsd/762:
[   20.264648]  #0: ffff0000874ae440 (sk_lock-AF_VSOCK){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: vsock_connect+0x60/0x330 [vsock]
[   20.264658] Preemption disabled at:
[   20.264659] [<ffff80000151d7d8>] vmci_send_datagram+0x44/0xa0 [vmw_vmci]
[   20.264665] CPU: 0 PID: 762 Comm: vmtoolsd Not tainted 5.19.0-0.rc8.20220727git39c3c396f813.60.fc37.aarch64 #1
[   20.264667] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VBSA/VBSA, BIOS VEFI 12/31/2020
[   20.264668] Call trace:
[   20.264669]  dump_backtrace+0xc4/0x130
[   20.264672]  show_stack+0x24/0x80
[   20.264673]  dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xb4
[   20.264676]  dump_stack+0x18/0x34
[   20.264677]  __might_resched+0x1a0/0x280
[   20.264679]  __might_sleep+0x58/0x90
[   20.264681]  vmci_read_data+0x74/0x120 [vmw_vmci]
[   20.264683]  vmci_dispatch_dgs+0x64/0x204 [vmw_vmci]
[   20.264686]  tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0x13c/0x150
[   20.264688]  tasklet_action+0x40/0x50
[   20.264689]  __do_softirq+0x23c/0x6b4
[   20.264690]  __irq_exit_rcu+0x104/0x214
[   20.264691]  irq_exit_rcu+0x1c/0x50
[   20.264693]  el1_interrupt+0x38/0x6c
[   20.264695]  el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
[   20.264696]  el1h_64_irq+0x68/0x6c
[   20.264697]  preempt_count_sub+0xa4/0xe0
[   20.264698]  _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x64/0xb0
[   20.264701]  vmci_send_datagram+0x7c/0xa0 [vmw_vmci]
[   20.264703]  vmci_datagram_dispatch+0x84/0x100 [vmw_vmci]
[   20.264706]  vmci_datagram_send+0x2c/0x40 [vmw_vmci]
[   20.264709]  vmci_transport_send_control_pkt+0xb8/0x120 [vmw_vsock_vmci_transport]
[   20.264711]  vmci_transport_connect+0x40/0x7c [vmw_vsock_vmci_transport]
[   20.264713]  vsock_connect+0x278/0x330 [vsock]
[   20.264715]  __sys_connect_file+0x8c/0xc0
[   20.264718]  __sys_connect+0x84/0xb4
[   20.264720]  __arm64_sys_connect+0x2c/0x3c
[   20.264721]  invoke_syscall+0x78/0x100
[   20.264723]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x68/0x124
[   20.264724]  do_el0_svc+0x38/0x4c
[   20.264725]  el0_svc+0x60/0x180
[   20.264726]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150
[   20.264728]  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49759 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.18 with commit 463713eb6164b6577f8e91447c7745628215531b and fixed in 6.1.8 with commit 548ea9dd5e01b0ecf53d2563004c80abd636743d
	Issue introduced in 5.18 with commit 463713eb6164b6577f8e91447c7745628215531b and fixed in 6.2 with commit 3daed6345d5880464f46adab871d208e1baa2f3a

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-2022-49759
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:
	drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.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/548ea9dd5e01b0ecf53d2563004c80abd636743d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3daed6345d5880464f46adab871d208e1baa2f3a