linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50516: fs: dlm: fix invalid derefence of sb

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Message-ID: <2025100703-CVE-2022-50516-3b07@gregkh>
Date: Tue,  7 Oct 2025 17:19:03 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50516: fs: dlm: fix invalid derefence of sb_lvbptr

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

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

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

fs: dlm: fix invalid derefence of sb_lvbptr

I experience issues when putting a lkbsb on the stack and have sb_lvbptr
field to a dangled pointer while not using DLM_LKF_VALBLK. It will crash
with the following kernel message, the dangled pointer is here
0xdeadbeef as example:

[  102.749317] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000deadbeef
[  102.749320] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[  102.749323] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[  102.749325] PGD 0 P4D 0
[  102.749332] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[  102.749336] CPU: 0 PID: 1567 Comm: lock_torture_wr Tainted: G        W         5.19.0-rc3+ #1565
[  102.749343] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM/RHEL-AV, BIOS 1.16.0-2.module+el8.7.0+15506+033991b0 04/01/2014
[  102.749344] RIP: 0010:memcpy_erms+0x6/0x10
[  102.749353] Code: cc cc cc cc eb 1e 0f 1f 00 48 89 f8 48 89 d1 48 c1 e9 03 83 e2 07 f3 48 a5 89 d1 f3 a4 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 d1 <f3> a4 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 89 f8 48 83 fa 20 72 7e 40 38 fe
[  102.749355] RSP: 0018:ffff97a58145fd08 EFLAGS: 00010202
[  102.749358] RAX: ffff901778b77070 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000040
[  102.749360] RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 00000000deadbeef RDI: ffff901778b77070
[  102.749362] RBP: ffff97a58145fd10 R08: ffff901760b67a70 R09: 0000000000000001
[  102.749364] R10: ffff9017008e2cb8 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff901760b67a70
[  102.749366] R13: ffff901760b78f00 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000001
[  102.749368] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff901876e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  102.749372] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  102.749374] CR2: 00000000deadbeef CR3: 000000017c49a004 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
[  102.749376] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  102.749378] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  102.749379] PKRU: 55555554
[  102.749381] Call Trace:
[  102.749382]  <TASK>
[  102.749383]  ? send_args+0xb2/0xd0
[  102.749389]  send_common+0xb7/0xd0
[  102.749395]  _unlock_lock+0x2c/0x90
[  102.749400]  unlock_lock.isra.56+0x62/0xa0
[  102.749405]  dlm_unlock+0x21e/0x330
[  102.749411]  ? lock_torture_stats+0x80/0x80 [dlm_locktorture]
[  102.749416]  torture_unlock+0x5a/0x90 [dlm_locktorture]
[  102.749419]  ? preempt_count_sub+0xba/0x100
[  102.749427]  lock_torture_writer+0xbd/0x150 [dlm_locktorture]
[  102.786186]  kthread+0x10a/0x130
[  102.786581]  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[  102.787156]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[  102.787588]  </TASK>
[  102.787855] Modules linked in: dlm_locktorture torture rpcsec_gss_krb5 intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common kvm_intel iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support kvm vmw_vsock_virtio_transport qxl irqbypass vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common drm_ttm_helper crc32_pclmul joydev crc32c_intel ttm vsock virtio_scsi virtio_balloon snd_pcm drm_kms_helper virtio_console snd_timer snd drm soundcore syscopyarea i2c_i801 sysfillrect sysimgblt i2c_smbus pcspkr fb_sys_fops lpc_ich serio_raw
[  102.792536] CR2: 00000000deadbeef
[  102.792930] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

This patch fixes the issue by checking also on DLM_LKF_VALBLK on exflags
is set when copying the lvbptr array instead of if it's just null which
fixes for me the issue.

I think this patch can fix other dlm users as well, depending how they
handle the init, freeing memory handling of sb_lvbptr and don't set
DLM_LKF_VALBLK for some dlm_lock() calls. It might a there could be a
hidden issue all the time. However with checking on DLM_LKF_VALBLK the
user always need to provide a sb_lvbptr non-null value. There might be
more intelligent handling between per ls lvblen, DLM_LKF_VALBLK and
non-null to report the user the way how DLM API is used is wrong but can
be added for later, this will only fix the current behaviour.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50516 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 5.15.76 with commit ea7be82fd7e1f5de72208bce93fbbe6de6c13dec
	Fixed in 5.19.17 with commit 1ab6d3030652b5de0015176a5b0ad9df9b847514
	Fixed in 6.0.3 with commit 57c1cfb5781068e5d3632bc6e5f74a8fcc4f1a30
	Fixed in 6.1 with commit 7175e131ebba47afef47e6ac4d5bab474d1e6e49

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-2022-50516
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/dlm/lock.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/ea7be82fd7e1f5de72208bce93fbbe6de6c13dec
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ab6d3030652b5de0015176a5b0ad9df9b847514
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57c1cfb5781068e5d3632bc6e5f74a8fcc4f1a30
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7175e131ebba47afef47e6ac4d5bab474d1e6e49