CVE-2023-52705
Publication date:
21/05/2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
nilfs2: fix underflow in second superblock position calculations<br />
<br />
Macro NILFS_SB2_OFFSET_BYTES, which computes the position of the second<br />
superblock, underflows when the argument device size is less than 4096<br />
bytes. Therefore, when using this macro, it is necessary to check in<br />
advance that the device size is not less than a lower limit, or at least<br />
that underflow does not occur.<br />
<br />
The current nilfs2 implementation lacks this check, causing out-of-bound<br />
block access when mounting devices smaller than 4096 bytes:<br />
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I/O error, dev loop0, sector 36028797018963960 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0<br />
phys_seg 1 prio class 2<br />
NILFS (loop0): unable to read secondary superblock (blocksize = 1024)<br />
<br />
In addition, when trying to resize the filesystem to a size below 4096<br />
bytes, this underflow occurs in nilfs_resize_fs(), passing a huge number<br />
of segments to nilfs_sufile_resize(), corrupting parameters such as the<br />
number of segments in superblocks. This causes excessive loop iterations<br />
in nilfs_sufile_resize() during a subsequent resize ioctl, causing<br />
semaphore ns_segctor_sem to block for a long time and hang the writer<br />
thread:<br />
<br />
INFO: task segctord:5067 blocked for more than 143 seconds.<br />
Not tainted 6.2.0-rc8-syzkaller-00015-gf6feea56f66d #0<br />
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.<br />
task:segctord state:D stack:23456 pid:5067 ppid:2<br />
flags:0x00004000<br />
Call Trace:<br />
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context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5293 [inline]<br />
__schedule+0x1409/0x43f0 kernel/sched/core.c:6606<br />
schedule+0xc3/0x190 kernel/sched/core.c:6682<br />
rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0xfcf/0x14a0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1190<br />
nilfs_transaction_lock+0x25c/0x4f0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:357<br />
nilfs_segctor_thread_construct fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2486 [inline]<br />
nilfs_segctor_thread+0x52f/0x1140 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2570<br />
kthread+0x270/0x300 kernel/kthread.c:376<br />
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:308<br />
<br />
...<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
folio_mark_accessed+0x51c/0xf00 mm/swap.c:515<br />
__nilfs_get_page_block fs/nilfs2/page.c:42 [inline]<br />
nilfs_grab_buffer+0x3d3/0x540 fs/nilfs2/page.c:61<br />
nilfs_mdt_submit_block+0xd7/0x8f0 fs/nilfs2/mdt.c:121<br />
nilfs_mdt_read_block+0xeb/0x430 fs/nilfs2/mdt.c:176<br />
nilfs_mdt_get_block+0x12d/0xbb0 fs/nilfs2/mdt.c:251<br />
nilfs_sufile_get_segment_usage_block fs/nilfs2/sufile.c:92 [inline]<br />
nilfs_sufile_truncate_range fs/nilfs2/sufile.c:679 [inline]<br />
nilfs_sufile_resize+0x7a3/0x12b0 fs/nilfs2/sufile.c:777<br />
nilfs_resize_fs+0x20c/0xed0 fs/nilfs2/super.c:422<br />
nilfs_ioctl_resize fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1033 [inline]<br />
nilfs_ioctl+0x137c/0x2440 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1301<br />
...<br />
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This fixes these issues by inserting appropriate minimum device size<br />
checks or anti-underflow checks, depending on where the macro is used.
Severity CVSS v4.0: Pending analysis
Last modification:
31/12/2024