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Message-ID: <2025100758-CVE-2022-50549-cb07@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 17:21:07 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50549: dm thin: Fix ABBA deadlock between shrink_slab and dm_pool_abort_metadata
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm thin: Fix ABBA deadlock between shrink_slab and dm_pool_abort_metadata
Following concurrent processes:
P1(drop cache) P2(kworker)
drop_caches_sysctl_handler
drop_slab
shrink_slab
down_read(&shrinker_rwsem) - LOCK A
do_shrink_slab
super_cache_scan
prune_icache_sb
dispose_list
evict
ext4_evict_inode
ext4_clear_inode
ext4_discard_preallocations
ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp
ext4_mb_init_cache
ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait
ext4_read_bh_nowait
submit_bh
dm_submit_bio
do_worker
process_deferred_bios
commit
metadata_operation_failed
dm_pool_abort_metadata
down_write(&pmd->root_lock) - LOCK B
__destroy_persistent_data_objects
dm_block_manager_destroy
dm_bufio_client_destroy
unregister_shrinker
down_write(&shrinker_rwsem)
thin_map |
dm_thin_find_block ↓
down_read(&pmd->root_lock) --> ABBA deadlock
, which triggers hung task:
[ 76.974820] INFO: task kworker/u4:3:63 blocked for more than 15 seconds.
[ 76.976019] Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-00011-g8f17dd350364-dirty #910
[ 76.978521] task:kworker/u4:3 state:D stack:0 pid:63 ppid:2
[ 76.978534] Workqueue: dm-thin do_worker
[ 76.978552] Call Trace:
[ 76.978564] __schedule+0x6ba/0x10f0
[ 76.978582] schedule+0x9d/0x1e0
[ 76.978588] rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0x587/0xdf0
[ 76.978600] down_write+0xec/0x110
[ 76.978607] unregister_shrinker+0x2c/0xf0
[ 76.978616] dm_bufio_client_destroy+0x116/0x3d0
[ 76.978625] dm_block_manager_destroy+0x19/0x40
[ 76.978629] __destroy_persistent_data_objects+0x5e/0x70
[ 76.978636] dm_pool_abort_metadata+0x8e/0x100
[ 76.978643] metadata_operation_failed+0x86/0x110
[ 76.978649] commit+0x6a/0x230
[ 76.978655] do_worker+0xc6e/0xd90
[ 76.978702] process_one_work+0x269/0x630
[ 76.978714] worker_thread+0x266/0x630
[ 76.978730] kthread+0x151/0x1b0
[ 76.978772] INFO: task test.sh:2646 blocked for more than 15 seconds.
[ 76.979756] Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-00011-g8f17dd350364-dirty #910
[ 76.982111] task:test.sh state:D stack:0 pid:2646 ppid:2459
[ 76.982128] Call Trace:
[ 76.982139] __schedule+0x6ba/0x10f0
[ 76.982155] schedule+0x9d/0x1e0
[ 76.982159] rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x4f4/0x910
[ 76.982173] down_read+0x84/0x170
[ 76.982177] dm_thin_find_block+0x4c/0xd0
[ 76.982183] thin_map+0x201/0x3d0
[ 76.982188] __map_bio+0x5b/0x350
[ 76.982195] dm_submit_bio+0x2b6/0x930
[ 76.982202] __submit_bio+0x123/0x2d0
[ 76.982209] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x101/0x3e0
[ 76.982222] submit_bio_noacct+0x389/0x770
[ 76.982227] submit_bio+0x50/0xc0
[ 76.982232] submit_bh_wbc+0x15e/0x230
[ 76.982238] submit_bh+0x14/0x20
[ 76.982241] ext4_read_bh_nowait+0xc5/0x130
[ 76.982247] ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait+0x340/0xc60
[ 76.982254] ext4_mb_init_cache+0x1ce/0xdc0
[ 76.982259] ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp+0x987/0xfa0
[ 76.982263] ext4_discard_preallocations+0x45d/0x830
[ 76.982274] ext4_clear_inode+0x48/0xf0
[ 76.982280] ext4_evict_inode+0xcf/0xc70
[ 76.982285] evict+0x119/0x2b0
[ 76.982290] dispose_list+0x43/0xa0
[ 76.982294] prune_icache_sb+0x64/0x90
[ 76.982298] super_cache_scan+0x155/0x210
[ 76.982303] do_shrink_slab+0x19e/0x4e0
[ 76.982310] shrink_slab+0x2bd/0x450
[ 76.982317] drop_slab+0xcc/0x1a0
[ 76.982323] drop_caches_sysctl_handler+0xb7/0xe0
[ 76.982327] proc_sys_call_handler+0x1bc/0x300
[ 76.982331] proc_sys_write+0x17/0x20
[ 76.982334] vfs_write+0x3d3/0x570
[ 76.982342] ksys_write+0x73/0x160
[ 76.982347] __x64_sys_write+0x1e/0x30
[ 76.982352] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[ 76.982357] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Function metadata_operation_failed() is called when operations failed
on dm pool metadata, dm pool will destroy and recreate metadata. So,
shrinker will be unregistered and registered, which could down write
shrinker_rwsem under pmd_write_lock.
Fix it by allocating dm_block_manager before locking pmd->root_lock
and destroying old dm_block_manager after unlocking pmd->root_lock,
then old dm_block_manager is replaced with new dm_block_manager under
pmd->root_lock. So, shrinker register/unregister could be done without
holding pmd->root_lock.
Fetch a reproducer in [Link].
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50549 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 3.6 with commit e49e582965b3694f07a106adc83ddb44aa4f0890 and fixed in 5.4.229 with commit 200aa33b5d781e7c0fa6c0c7db9dbcc3f574ce8f
Issue introduced in 3.6 with commit e49e582965b3694f07a106adc83ddb44aa4f0890 and fixed in 5.10.163 with commit 7e37578069737b04955c71dd85db8a3bc2709eff
Issue introduced in 3.6 with commit e49e582965b3694f07a106adc83ddb44aa4f0890 and fixed in 5.15.87 with commit f8c26c33fef588ee54852cffa7cbb9f9d9869405
Issue introduced in 3.6 with commit e49e582965b3694f07a106adc83ddb44aa4f0890 and fixed in 6.0.18 with commit 2d891cc5a1706b6908bceb56af7176a463ee6d62
Issue introduced in 3.6 with commit e49e582965b3694f07a106adc83ddb44aa4f0890 and fixed in 6.1.4 with commit cdf7a39bcc427febbfe3c3b9fe829825ead96c27
Issue introduced in 3.6 with commit e49e582965b3694f07a106adc83ddb44aa4f0890 and fixed in 6.2 with commit 8111964f1b8524c4bb56b02cd9c7a37725ea21fd
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-2022-50549
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/md/dm-thin-metadata.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/200aa33b5d781e7c0fa6c0c7db9dbcc3f574ce8f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e37578069737b04955c71dd85db8a3bc2709eff
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8c26c33fef588ee54852cffa7cbb9f9d9869405
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d891cc5a1706b6908bceb56af7176a463ee6d62
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdf7a39bcc427febbfe3c3b9fe829825ead96c27
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8111964f1b8524c4bb56b02cd9c7a37725ea21fd
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