CVE-2021-47275

bcache: avoid oversized read request in cache missing code path

published May 21, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.8
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Unconfirmed
What it is

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

bcache: avoid oversized read request in cache missing code path

In the cache missing code path of cached device, if a proper location

from the internal B+ tree is matched for a cache miss range, function

cached_dev_cache_miss() will be called in cache_lookup_fn() in the

following code block,

[code block 1]

526 unsigned int sectors = KEY_INODE(k) == s->iop.inode

527 ? min_t(uint64_t, INT_MAX,

528 KEY_START(k) - bio->bi_iter.bi_sector)

529 : INT_MAX;

530 int ret = s->d->cache_miss(b, s, bio, sectors);

Here s->d->cache_miss() is the call backfunction pointer initialized as

cached_dev_cache_miss(), the last parameter 'sectors' is an important

hint to calculate the size of read request to backing device of the

missing cache data.

Current calculation in above code block may generate oversized value of

'sectors', which consequently may trigger 2 different potential kernel

panics by BUG() or BUG_ON() as listed below,

1) BUG_ON() inside bch_btree_insert_key(),

[code block 2]

886 BUG_ON(b->ops->is_extents && !KEY_SIZE(k));

2) BUG() inside biovec_slab(),

[code block 3]

51 default:

52 BUG();

53 return NULL;

All the above panics are original from cached_dev_cache_miss() by the

oversized parameter 'sectors'.

Inside cached_dev_cache_miss(), parameter 'sectors' is used to calculate

the size of data read from backing device for the cache missing. This

size is stored in s->insert_bio_sectors by the following lines of code,

[code block 4]

909 s->insert_bio_sectors = min(sectors, bio_sectors(bio) + reada);

Then the actual key inserting to the internal B+ tree is generated and

stored in s->iop.replace_key by the following lines of code,

[code block 5]

911 s->iop.replace_key = KEY(s->iop.inode,

912 bio->bi_iter.bi_sector + s->insert_bio_sectors,

913 s->insert_bio_sectors);

The oversized parameter 'sectors' may trigger panic 1) by BUG_ON() from

the above code block.

And the bio sending to backing device for the missing data is allocated

with hint from s->insert_bio_sectors by the following lines of code,

[code block 6]

926 cache_bio = bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_NOWAIT,

927 DIV_ROUND_UP(s->insert_bio_sectors, PAGE_SECTORS),

928 &dc->disk.bio_split);

The oversized parameter 'sectors' may trigger panic 2) by BUG() from the

agove code block.

Now let me explain how the panics happen with the oversized 'sectors'.

In code block 5, replace_key is generated by macro KEY(). From the

definition of macro KEY(),

[code block 7]

71 #define KEY(inode, offset, size) \

72 ((struct bkey) { \

73 .high = (1ULL << 63) | ((__u64) (size) << 20) | (inode), \

74 .low = (offset) \

75 })

Here 'size' is 16bits width embedded in 64bits member 'high' of struct

bkey. But in code block 1, if "KEY_START(k) - bio->bi_iter.bi_sector" is

very probably to be larger than (1<<16) - 1, which makes the bkey size

calculation in code block 5 is overflowed. In one bug report the value

of parameter 'sectors' is 131072 (= 1 << 17), the overflowed 'sectors'

results the overflowed s->insert_bio_sectors in code block 4, then makes

size field of s->iop.replace_key to be 0 in code block 5. Then the 0-

sized s->iop.replace_key is inserted into the internal B+ tree as cache

missing check key (a special key to detect and avoid a racing between

normal write request and cache missing read request) as,

[code block 8]

915 ret = bch_btree_insert_check_key(b, &s->op, &s->iop.replace_key);

Then the 0-sized s->iop.replace_key as 3rd parameter triggers the bkey

size check BUG_ON() in code block 2, and causes the kernel panic 1).

Another ke

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The record
Technical detail
CVSS
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CVSS v4.0
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EPSS
0.00196 · 8.8th percentile
Published
2024-05-21T14:20Z
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