CVE-2021-47582

USB: core: Make do_proc_control() and do_proc_bulk() killable

published June 19, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

USB: core: Make do_proc_control() and do_proc_bulk() killable

The USBDEVFS_CONTROL and USBDEVFS_BULK ioctls invoke

usb_start_wait_urb(), which contains an uninterruptible wait with a

user-specified timeout value. If timeout value is very large and the

device being accessed does not respond in a reasonable amount of time,

the kernel will complain about "Task X blocked for more than N

seconds", as found in testing by syzbot:

INFO: task syz-executor.0:8700 blocked for more than 143 seconds.

Not tainted 5.14.0-rc7-syzkaller #0

"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.

task:syz-executor.0 state:D stack:23192 pid: 8700 ppid: 8455 flags:0x00004004

Call Trace:

context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:4681 [inline]

__schedule+0xc07/0x11f0 kernel/sched/core.c:5938

schedule+0x14b/0x210 kernel/sched/core.c:6017

schedule_timeout+0x98/0x2f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1857

do_wait_for_common+0x2da/0x480 kernel/sched/completion.c:85

__wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:106 [inline]

wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:117 [inline]

wait_for_completion_timeout+0x46/0x60 kernel/sched/completion.c:157

usb_start_wait_urb+0x167/0x550 drivers/usb/core/message.c:63

do_proc_bulk+0x978/0x1080 drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1236

proc_bulk drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1273 [inline]

usbdev_do_ioctl drivers/usb/core/devio.c:2547 [inline]

usbdev_ioctl+0x3441/0x6b10 drivers/usb/core/devio.c:2713

...

To fix this problem, this patch replaces usbfs's calls to

usb_control_msg() and usb_bulk_msg() with special-purpose code that

does essentially the same thing (as recommended in the comment for

usb_start_wait_urb()), except that it always uses a killable wait and

it uses GFP_KERNEL rather than GFP_NOIO.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00198 · 9.1th percentile
Published
2024-06-19T14:53Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JUN 14:53Z
    USB: core: Make do_proc_control() and do_proc_bulk() killable
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