linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-49941: tty: n_gsm: avoid call of sleeping functions from atomic context

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Message-ID: <2025061849-CVE-2022-49941-b536@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:54:52 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49941: tty: n_gsm: avoid call of sleeping functions from atomic context

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

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

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

tty: n_gsm: avoid call of sleeping functions from atomic context

Syzkaller reports the following problem:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/printk/printk.c:2347
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1105, name: syz-executor423
3 locks held by syz-executor423/1105:
 #0: ffff8881468b9098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x22/0x90 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:266
 #1: ffff8881468b9130 (&tty->atomic_write_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_write_lock drivers/tty/tty_io.c:952 [inline]
 #1: ffff8881468b9130 (&tty->atomic_write_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: do_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:975 [inline]
 #1: ffff8881468b9130 (&tty->atomic_write_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: file_tty_write.constprop.0+0x2a8/0x8e0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1118
 #2: ffff88801b06c398 (&gsm->tx_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: gsmld_write+0x5e/0x150 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:2717
irq event stamp: 3482
hardirqs last  enabled at (3481): [<ffffffff81d13343>] __get_reqs_available+0x143/0x2f0 fs/aio.c:946
hardirqs last disabled at (3482): [<ffffffff87d39722>] __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:108 [inline]
hardirqs last disabled at (3482): [<ffffffff87d39722>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x52/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:159
softirqs last  enabled at (3408): [<ffffffff87e01002>] asm_call_irq_on_stack+0x12/0x20
softirqs last disabled at (3401): [<ffffffff87e01002>] asm_call_irq_on_stack+0x12/0x20
Preemption disabled at:
[<0000000000000000>] 0x0
CPU: 2 PID: 1105 Comm: syz-executor423 Not tainted 5.10.137-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x107/0x167 lib/dump_stack.c:118
 ___might_sleep.cold+0x1e8/0x22e kernel/sched/core.c:7304
 console_lock+0x19/0x80 kernel/printk/printk.c:2347
 do_con_write+0x113/0x1de0 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:2909
 con_write+0x22/0xc0 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3296
 gsmld_write+0xd0/0x150 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:2720
 do_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1028 [inline]
 file_tty_write.constprop.0+0x502/0x8e0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1118
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:1903 [inline]
 aio_write+0x355/0x7b0 fs/aio.c:1580
 __io_submit_one fs/aio.c:1952 [inline]
 io_submit_one+0xf45/0x1a90 fs/aio.c:1999
 __do_sys_io_submit fs/aio.c:2058 [inline]
 __se_sys_io_submit fs/aio.c:2028 [inline]
 __x64_sys_io_submit+0x18c/0x2f0 fs/aio.c:2028
 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6

The problem happens in the following control flow:

gsmld_write(...)
spin_lock_irqsave(&gsm->tx_lock, flags) // taken a spinlock on TX data
 con_write(...)
  do_con_write(...)
   console_lock()
    might_sleep() // -> bug

As far as console_lock() might sleep it should not be called with
spinlock held.

The patch replaces tx_lock spinlock with mutex in order to avoid the
problem.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49941 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.10.137 with commit 273d412177216c7712fb08f2b914ef7f4d8a9ed7 and fixed in 5.10.143 with commit eb75efdec8dd0f01ac85c88feafa6e63b34a2521
	Issue introduced in 5.19.2 with commit 5320aa45f526ddd3374e6226842467b788894b34 and fixed in 5.19.8 with commit 132331c1f605eb5911795a6b9115114575594d0a
	Issue introduced in 4.14.291 with commit e1e3b6517ddbb0e9934785d3bd94e61fde05c6ec
	Issue introduced in 4.19.256 with commit c530595b28effe99d99041e7f57371e046535007
	Issue introduced in 5.4.211 with commit fbf979564682edf1b727d4b6620ca70c59f4ee62
	Issue introduced in 5.15.61 with commit c9754e10f1a57c1be24f6fb0cade58253e05a109
	Issue introduced in 5.18.18 with commit b9a1395783a0ae488a7a74e4d97b43322067f200

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-2022-49941
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/tty/n_gsm.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/eb75efdec8dd0f01ac85c88feafa6e63b34a2521
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/132331c1f605eb5911795a6b9115114575594d0a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/902e02ea9385373ce4b142576eef41c642703955