Message-ID: <2025100158-CVE-2022-50432-bb35@gregkh>
Date: Wed,  1 Oct 2025 13:42:05 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50432: kernfs: fix use-after-free in __kernfs_remove

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

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

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

kernfs: fix use-after-free in __kernfs_remove

Syzkaller managed to trigger concurrent calls to
kernfs_remove_by_name_ns() for the same file resulting in
a KASAN detected use-after-free. The race occurs when the root
node is freed during kernfs_drain().

To prevent this acquire an additional reference for the root
of the tree that is removed before calling __kernfs_remove().

Found by syzkaller with the following reproducer (slab_nomerge is
required):

syz_mount_image$ext4(0x0, &(0x7f0000000100)='./file0\x00', 0x100000, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
r0 = openat(0xffffffffffffff9c, &(0x7f0000000080)='/proc/self/exe\x00', 0x0, 0x0)
close(r0)
pipe2(&(0x7f0000000140)={0xffffffffffffffff, <r1=>0xffffffffffffffff}, 0x800)
mount$9p_fd(0x0, &(0x7f0000000040)='./file0\x00', &(0x7f00000000c0), 0x408, &(0x7f0000000280)={'trans=fd,', {'rfdno', 0x3d, r0}, 0x2c, {'wfdno', 0x3d, r1}, 0x2c, {[{@...he_loose}, {@...p}, {@...se}, {@...se}, {@...p}], [{@...k={'mask', 0x3d, '^MAY_EXEC'}}, {@...agic={'fsmagic', 0x3d, 0x10001}}, {@...t_hash}]}})

Sample report:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kernfs_type include/linux/kernfs.h:335 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kernfs_leftmost_descendant fs/kernfs/dir.c:1261 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __kernfs_remove.part.0+0x843/0x960 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1369
Read of size 2 at addr ffff8880088807f0 by task syz-executor.2/857

CPU: 0 PID: 857 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc3-00363-g7726d4c3e60b #5
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0x91 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:317 [inline]
 print_report.cold+0x5e/0x5e5 mm/kasan/report.c:433
 kasan_report+0xa3/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:495
 kernfs_type include/linux/kernfs.h:335 [inline]
 kernfs_leftmost_descendant fs/kernfs/dir.c:1261 [inline]
 __kernfs_remove.part.0+0x843/0x960 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1369
 __kernfs_remove fs/kernfs/dir.c:1356 [inline]
 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x108/0x190 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1589
 sysfs_slab_add+0x133/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:5943
 __kmem_cache_create+0x3e0/0x550 mm/slub.c:4899
 create_cache mm/slab_common.c:229 [inline]
 kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x167/0x2a0 mm/slab_common.c:335
 p9_client_create+0xd4d/0x1190 net/9p/client.c:993
 v9fs_session_init+0x1e6/0x13c0 fs/9p/v9fs.c:408
 v9fs_mount+0xb9/0xbd0 fs/9p/vfs_super.c:126
 legacy_get_tree+0xf1/0x200 fs/fs_context.c:610
 vfs_get_tree+0x85/0x2e0 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3040 [inline]
 path_mount+0x675/0x1d00 fs/namespace.c:3370
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3383 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3591 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3568 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mount+0x282/0x300 fs/namespace.c:3568
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7f725f983aed
Code: 02 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f725f0f7028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f725faa3f80 RCX: 00007f725f983aed
RDX: 00000000200000c0 RSI: 0000000020000040 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007f725f9f419c R08: 0000000020000280 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000408 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000006 R14: 00007f725faa3f80 R15: 00007f725f0d7000
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 855:
 kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:437 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x66/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:470
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:224 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:727 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3243 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3251 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3258 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0xbf/0x200 mm/slub.c:3268
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:723 [inline]
 __kernfs_new_node+0xd4/0x680 fs/kernfs/dir.c:593
 kernfs_new_node fs/kernfs/dir.c:655 [inline]
 kernfs_create_dir_ns+0x9c/0x220 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1010
 sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x127/0x290 fs/sysfs/dir.c:59
 create_dir lib/kobject.c:63 [inline]
 kobject_add_internal+0x24a/0x8d0 lib/kobject.c:223
 kobject_add_varg lib/kobject.c:358 [inline]
 kobject_init_and_add+0x101/0x160 lib/kobject.c:441
 sysfs_slab_add+0x156/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:5954
 __kmem_cache_create+0x3e0/0x550 mm/slub.c:4899
 create_cache mm/slab_common.c:229 [inline]
 kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x167/0x2a0 mm/slab_common.c:335
 p9_client_create+0xd4d/0x1190 net/9p/client.c:993
 v9fs_session_init+0x1e6/0x13c0 fs/9p/v9fs.c:408
 v9fs_mount+0xb9/0xbd0 fs/9p/vfs_super.c:126
 legacy_get_tree+0xf1/0x200 fs/fs_context.c:610
 vfs_get_tree+0x85/0x2e0 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3040 [inline]
 path_mount+0x675/0x1d00 fs/namespace.c:3370
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3383 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3591 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3568 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mount+0x282/0x300 fs/namespace.c:3568
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Freed by task 857:
 kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:370
 ____kasan_slab_free mm/kasan/common.c:367 [inline]
 ____kasan_slab_free mm/kasan/common.c:329 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x108/0x190 mm/kasan/common.c:375
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:200 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1754 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook mm/slub.c:1780 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3534 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x9c/0x340 mm/slub.c:3551
 kernfs_put.part.0+0x2b2/0x520 fs/kernfs/dir.c:547
 kernfs_put+0x42/0x50 fs/kernfs/dir.c:521
 __kernfs_remove.part.0+0x72d/0x960 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1407
 __kernfs_remove fs/kernfs/dir.c:1356 [inline]
 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x108/0x190 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1589
 sysfs_slab_add+0x133/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:5943
 __kmem_cache_create+0x3e0/0x550 mm/slub.c:4899
 create_cache mm/slab_common.c:229 [inline]
 kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x167/0x2a0 mm/slab_common.c:335
 p9_client_create+0xd4d/0x1190 net/9p/client.c:993
 v9fs_session_init+0x1e6/0x13c0 fs/9p/v9fs.c:408
 v9fs_mount+0xb9/0xbd0 fs/9p/vfs_super.c:126
 legacy_get_tree+0xf1/0x200 fs/fs_context.c:610
 vfs_get_tree+0x85/0x2e0 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3040 [inline]
 path_mount+0x675/0x1d00 fs/namespace.c:3370
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3383 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3591 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3568 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mount+0x282/0x300 fs/namespace.c:3568
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888008880780
 which belongs to the cache kernfs_node_cache of size 128
The buggy address is located 112 bytes inside of
 128-byte region [ffff888008880780, ffff888008880800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:00000000732833f8 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x8880
flags: 0x100000000000200(slab|node=0|zone=1)
raw: 0100000000000200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff888001147280
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000150015 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888008880680: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888008880700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888008880780: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                             ^
 ffff888008880800: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888008880880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50432 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 4.9.332 with commit 4dfd6a477a1525773469feaf3c514b2c0fef76b5
	Fixed in 4.14.298 with commit 02eb35131050735332658029082f61515b7dfe38
	Fixed in 4.19.264 with commit 028cf780743eea79abffa7206b9dcfc080ad3546
	Fixed in 5.4.223 with commit c78b0dc6fb7fb389d674e491fd376388cdfb1d53
	Fixed in 5.10.153 with commit 6f72a3977ba9d0e5491a5c01315204272e7f9c44
	Fixed in 5.15.77 with commit 94d2643df1e70a4c310ebb5e2c493eec33df1a06
	Fixed in 6.0.7 with commit af1b57cc39beca203559576b3046094fc9e5eb32
	Fixed in 6.1 with commit 4abc99652812a2ddf932f137515d5c5a04723538

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-2022-50432
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/kernfs/dir.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/4dfd6a477a1525773469feaf3c514b2c0fef76b5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02eb35131050735332658029082f61515b7dfe38
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/028cf780743eea79abffa7206b9dcfc080ad3546
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c78b0dc6fb7fb389d674e491fd376388cdfb1d53
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f72a3977ba9d0e5491a5c01315204272e7f9c44
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94d2643df1e70a4c310ebb5e2c493eec33df1a06
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af1b57cc39beca203559576b3046094fc9e5eb32
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4abc99652812a2ddf932f137515d5c5a04723538

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