Description (CNA)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io-wq: check that the predecessor is hashed in io_wq_remove_pending() io_wq_remove_pending() needs to fix up wq->hash_tail[] if the cancelled work was the tail of its hash bucket. When doing this, it checks whether the preceding entry in acct->work_list has the same hash value, but never checks that the predecessor is hashed at all. io_get_work_hash() is simply atomic_read(&work->flags) >> IO_WQ_HASH_SHIFT, and the hash bits are never set for non-hashed work, so it returns 0. Thus, when a hashed bucket-0 work is cancelled while a non-hashed work is its list predecessor, the check spuriously passes and a pointer to the non-hashed io_kiocb is stored in wq->hash_tail[0]. Because non-hashed work is dequeued via the fast path in io_get_next_work(), which never touches hash_tail[], the stale pointer is never cleared. Therefore, after the non-hashed io_kiocb completes and is freed back to req_cachep, wq->hash_tail[0] is a dangling pointer. The io_wq is per-task (tctx->io_wq) and survives ring open/close, so the dangling pointer persists for the lifetime of the task; the next hashed bucket-0 enqueue dereferences it in io_wq_insert_work() and wq_list_add_after() writes through freed memory. Add the missing io_wq_is_hashed() check so a non-hashed predecessor never inherits a hash_tail[] slot.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux / Linux | affected 204361a77f4018627addd4a06877448f088ddfc0 before d6bda9df0c0a3080804181464d5c0f4d78a4e769; affected 204361a77f4018627addd4a06877448f088ddfc0 before 5a20ebf0c81b61f5ea3b1b529c100cad69b9f603; affected 204361a77f4018627addd4a06877448f088ddfc0 before 252c5051dba9c709b6a72f2866f93e5e618b3f06; affected 204361a77f4018627addd4a06877448f088ddfc0 before d376c131af7c7739a87ff037ed2fdb67c2542c8a; affected 204361a77f4018627addd4a06877448f088ddfc0 before d6a2d7b04b5a093021a7a0e2e69e9d5237dfa8cc; affected 13f35a2c0fd5c6a4fcd8903542b053bcc914fcf5; affected 5.8.6 before 5.9 |
| Linux / Linux | affected 5.9; unaffected 0 before 5.9; unaffected 6.6.141 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.91 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.33 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.0.10 through 7.0.*; unaffected 7.1 through * |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6bda9df0c0a3080804181464d5c0f4d78a4e769
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a20ebf0c81b61f5ea3b1b529c100cad69b9f603
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/252c5051dba9c709b6a72f2866f93e5e618b3f06
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d376c131af7c7739a87ff037ed2fdb67c2542c8a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6a2d7b04b5a093021a7a0e2e69e9d5237dfa8cc