cve/published/2024/CVE-2024-26725.mbox

From bippy-5f407fcff5a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: <linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org>
Reply-to: <cve@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-26725: dpll: fix possible deadlock during netlink dump operation

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

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

dpll: fix possible deadlock during netlink dump operation

Recently, I've been hitting following deadlock warning during dpll pin
dump:

[52804.637962] ======================================================
[52804.638536] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[52804.639111] 6.8.0-rc2jiri+ #1 Not tainted
[52804.639529] ------------------------------------------------------
[52804.640104] python3/2984 is trying to acquire lock:
[52804.640581] ffff88810e642678 (nlk_cb_mutex-GENERIC){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: netlink_dump+0xb3/0x780
[52804.641417]
               but task is already holding lock:
[52804.642010] ffffffff83bde4c8 (dpll_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: dpll_lock_dumpit+0x13/0x20
[52804.642747]
               which lock already depends on the new lock.

[52804.643551]
               the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[52804.644259]
               -> #1 (dpll_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}:
[52804.644836]        lock_acquire+0x174/0x3e0
[52804.645271]        __mutex_lock+0x119/0x1150
[52804.645723]        dpll_lock_dumpit+0x13/0x20
[52804.646169]        genl_start+0x266/0x320
[52804.646578]        __netlink_dump_start+0x321/0x450
[52804.647056]        genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit+0x155/0x1e0
[52804.647575]        genl_rcv_msg+0x1ed/0x3b0
[52804.648001]        netlink_rcv_skb+0xdc/0x210
[52804.648440]        genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
[52804.648831]        netlink_unicast+0x2f1/0x490
[52804.649290]        netlink_sendmsg+0x36d/0x660
[52804.649742]        __sock_sendmsg+0x73/0xc0
[52804.650165]        __sys_sendto+0x184/0x210
[52804.650597]        __x64_sys_sendto+0x72/0x80
[52804.651045]        do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x140
[52804.651474]        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0x4e
[52804.652001]
               -> #0 (nlk_cb_mutex-GENERIC){+.+.}-{3:3}:
[52804.652650]        check_prev_add+0x1ae/0x1280
[52804.653107]        __lock_acquire+0x1ed3/0x29a0
[52804.653559]        lock_acquire+0x174/0x3e0
[52804.653984]        __mutex_lock+0x119/0x1150
[52804.654423]        netlink_dump+0xb3/0x780
[52804.654845]        __netlink_dump_start+0x389/0x450
[52804.655321]        genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit+0x155/0x1e0
[52804.655842]        genl_rcv_msg+0x1ed/0x3b0
[52804.656272]        netlink_rcv_skb+0xdc/0x210
[52804.656721]        genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
[52804.657119]        netlink_unicast+0x2f1/0x490
[52804.657570]        netlink_sendmsg+0x36d/0x660
[52804.658022]        __sock_sendmsg+0x73/0xc0
[52804.658450]        __sys_sendto+0x184/0x210
[52804.658877]        __x64_sys_sendto+0x72/0x80
[52804.659322]        do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x140
[52804.659752]        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0x4e
[52804.660281]
               other info that might help us debug this:

[52804.661077]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

[52804.661671]        CPU0                    CPU1
[52804.662129]        ----                    ----
[52804.662577]   lock(dpll_lock);
[52804.662924]                                lock(nlk_cb_mutex-GENERIC);
[52804.663538]                                lock(dpll_lock);
[52804.664073]   lock(nlk_cb_mutex-GENERIC);
[52804.664490]

The issue as follows: __netlink_dump_start() calls control->start(cb)
with nlk->cb_mutex held. In control->start(cb) the dpll_lock is taken.
Then nlk->cb_mutex is released and taken again in netlink_dump(), while
dpll_lock still being held. That leads to ABBA deadlock when another
CPU races with the same operation.

Fix this by moving dpll_lock taking into dumpit() callback which ensures
correct lock taking order.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-26725 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.7 with commit 9d71b54b65b1fb6c0d3a6c5c88ba9b915c783fbc and fixed in 6.7.6 with commit 087739cbd0d0b87b6cec2c0799436ac66e24acc8
	Issue introduced in 6.7 with commit 9d71b54b65b1fb6c0d3a6c5c88ba9b915c783fbc and fixed in 6.8 with commit 53c0441dd2c44ee93fddb5473885fd41e4bc2361

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-2024-26725
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:
	Documentation/netlink/specs/dpll.yaml
	drivers/dpll/dpll_netlink.c
	drivers/dpll/dpll_nl.c
	drivers/dpll/dpll_nl.h


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/087739cbd0d0b87b6cec2c0799436ac66e24acc8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53c0441dd2c44ee93fddb5473885fd41e4bc2361