linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-49810: netfs: Fix missing xas

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Message-ID: <2025050129-CVE-2022-49810-e637@gregkh>
Date: Thu,  1 May 2025 16:10:00 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49810: netfs: Fix missing xas_retry() calls in xarray iteration

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

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

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

netfs: Fix missing xas_retry() calls in xarray iteration

netfslib has a number of places in which it performs iteration of an xarray
whilst being under the RCU read lock.  It *should* call xas_retry() as the
first thing inside of the loop and do "continue" if it returns true in case
the xarray walker passed out a special value indicating that the walk needs
to be redone from the root[*].

Fix this by adding the missing retry checks.

[*] I wonder if this should be done inside xas_find(), xas_next_node() and
    suchlike, but I'm told that's not an simple change to effect.

This can cause an oops like that below.  Note the faulting address - this
is an internal value (|0x2) returned from xarray.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000402
...
RIP: 0010:netfs_rreq_unlock+0xef/0x380 [netfs]
...
Call Trace:
 netfs_rreq_assess+0xa6/0x240 [netfs]
 netfs_readpage+0x173/0x3b0 [netfs]
 ? init_wait_var_entry+0x50/0x50
 filemap_read_page+0x33/0xf0
 filemap_get_pages+0x2f2/0x3f0
 filemap_read+0xaa/0x320
 ? do_filp_open+0xb2/0x150
 ? rmqueue+0x3be/0xe10
 ceph_read_iter+0x1fe/0x680 [ceph]
 ? new_sync_read+0x115/0x1a0
 new_sync_read+0x115/0x1a0
 vfs_read+0xf3/0x180
 ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Changes:
========
ver #2)
 - Changed an unsigned int to a size_t to reduce the likelihood of an
   overflow as per Willy's suggestion.
 - Added an additional patch to fix the maths.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49810 to this issue.

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

	Issue introduced in 5.13 with commit 3d3c95046742e4eebaa4b891b0b01cbbed94ebbd and fixed in 6.0.10 with commit b2cc07a76f1eb12de3b22caf5fdbf856a7bef16d
	Issue introduced in 5.13 with commit 3d3c95046742e4eebaa4b891b0b01cbbed94ebbd and fixed in 6.1 with commit 7e043a80b5dae5c2d2cf84031501de7827fd6c00

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-2022-49810
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/netfs/buffered_read.c
	fs/netfs/io.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/b2cc07a76f1eb12de3b22caf5fdbf856a7bef16d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e043a80b5dae5c2d2cf84031501de7827fd6c00