CVE-2021-47387

cpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release() method to free sugov_tunables

published May 21, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

cpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release() method to free sugov_tunables

The struct sugov_tunables is protected by the kobject, so we can't free

it directly. Otherwise we would get a call trace like this:

ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x30

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 720 at lib/debugobjects.c:505 debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100

Modules linked in:

CPU: 3 PID: 720 Comm: a.sh Tainted: G W 5.14.0-rc1-next-20210715-yocto-standard+ #507

Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN96XX board (DT)

pstate: 40400009 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)

pc : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100

lr : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100

sp : ffff80001ecaf910

x29: ffff80001ecaf910 x28: ffff00011b10b8d0 x27: ffff800011043d80

x26: ffff00011a8f0000 x25: ffff800013cb3ff0 x24: 0000000000000000

x23: ffff80001142aa68 x22: ffff800011043d80 x21: ffff00010de46f20

x20: ffff800013c0c520 x19: ffff800011d8f5b0 x18: 0000000000000010

x17: 6e6968207473696c x16: 5f72656d6974203a x15: 6570797420746365

x14: 6a626f2029302065 x13: 303378302f307830 x12: 2b6e665f72656d69

x11: ffff8000124b1560 x10: ffff800012331520 x9 : ffff8000100ca6b0

x8 : 000000000017ffe8 x7 : c0000000fffeffff x6 : 0000000000000001

x5 : ffff800011d8c000 x4 : ffff800011d8c740 x3 : 0000000000000000

x2 : ffff0001108301c0 x1 : ab3c90eedf9c0f00 x0 : 0000000000000000

Call trace:

debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100

__debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x1c0/0x230

debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x20/0x88

slab_free_freelist_hook+0x154/0x1c8

kfree+0x114/0x5d0

sugov_exit+0xbc/0xc0

cpufreq_exit_governor+0x44/0x90

cpufreq_set_policy+0x268/0x4a8

store_scaling_governor+0xe0/0x128

store+0xc0/0xf0

sysfs_kf_write+0x54/0x80

kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x128/0x1c0

new_sync_write+0xf0/0x190

vfs_write+0x2d4/0x478

ksys_write+0x74/0x100

__arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30

invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x54/0xe0

do_el0_svc+0x64/0x158

el0_svc+0x2c/0xb0

el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb8

el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c

irq event stamp: 5518

hardirqs last enabled at (5517): [<ffff8000100cbd7c>] console_unlock+0x554/0x6c8

hardirqs last disabled at (5518): [<ffff800010fc0638>] el1_dbg+0x28/0xa0

softirqs last enabled at (5504): [<ffff8000100106e0>] __do_softirq+0x4d0/0x6c0

softirqs last disabled at (5483): [<ffff800010049548>] irq_exit+0x1b0/0x1b8

So split the original sugov_tunables_free() into two functions,

sugov_clear_global_tunables() is just used to clear the global_tunables

and the new sugov_tunables_free() is used as kobj_type::release to

release the sugov_tunables safely.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00251 · 15.5th percentile
Published
2024-05-21T15:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 MAY 15:03Z
    cpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release() method to free sugov_tunables
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