Message-ID: <2025032706-CVE-2023-52982-7291@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:43:29 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-52982: fscache: Use wait_on_bit() to wait for the freeing of relinquished volume

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

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

fscache: Use wait_on_bit() to wait for the freeing of relinquished volume

The freeing of relinquished volume will wake up the pending volume
acquisition by using wake_up_bit(), however it is mismatched with
wait_var_event() used in fscache_wait_on_volume_collision() and it will
never wake up the waiter in the wait-queue because these two functions
operate on different wait-queues.

According to the implementation in fscache_wait_on_volume_collision(),
if the wake-up of pending acquisition is delayed longer than 20 seconds
(e.g., due to the delay of on-demand fd closing), the first
wait_var_event_timeout() will timeout and the following wait_var_event()
will hang forever as shown below:

 FS-Cache: Potential volume collision new=00000024 old=00000022
 ......
 INFO: task mount:1148 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
       Not tainted 6.1.0-rc6+ #1
 task:mount           state:D stack:0     pid:1148  ppid:1
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  __schedule+0x2f6/0xb80
  schedule+0x67/0xe0
  fscache_wait_on_volume_collision.cold+0x80/0x82
  __fscache_acquire_volume+0x40d/0x4e0
  erofs_fscache_register_volume+0x51/0xe0 [erofs]
  erofs_fscache_register_fs+0x19c/0x240 [erofs]
  erofs_fc_fill_super+0x746/0xaf0 [erofs]
  vfs_get_super+0x7d/0x100
  get_tree_nodev+0x16/0x20
  erofs_fc_get_tree+0x20/0x30 [erofs]
  vfs_get_tree+0x24/0xb0
  path_mount+0x2fa/0xa90
  do_mount+0x7c/0xa0
  __x64_sys_mount+0x8b/0xe0
  do_syscall_64+0x30/0x60
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Considering that wake_up_bit() is more selective, so fix it by using
wait_on_bit() instead of wait_var_event() to wait for the freeing of
relinquished volume. In addition because waitqueue_active() is used in
wake_up_bit() and clear_bit() doesn't imply any memory barrier, use
clear_and_wake_up_bit() to add the missing memory barrier between
cursor->flags and waitqueue_active().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-52982 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.17 with commit 62ab63352350e881ae693a8236b35d7d0516c78b and fixed in 6.1.11 with commit 3be069f42a7b79d3149194f21cdf24bf23864cac
	Issue introduced in 5.17 with commit 62ab63352350e881ae693a8236b35d7d0516c78b and fixed in 6.2 with commit 8226e37d82f43657da34dd770e2b38f20242ada7

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-2023-52982
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/fscache/volume.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/3be069f42a7b79d3149194f21cdf24bf23864cac
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8226e37d82f43657da34dd770e2b38f20242ada7

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