CVE-2023-52982

fscache: Use wait_on_bit() to wait for the freeing of relinquished volume

published March 27, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

fscache: Use wait_on_bit() to wait for the freeing of relinquished volume

The freeing of relinquished volume will wake up the pending volume

acquisition by using wake_up_bit(), however it is mismatched with

wait_var_event() used in fscache_wait_on_volume_collision() and it will

never wake up the waiter in the wait-queue because these two functions

operate on different wait-queues.

According to the implementation in fscache_wait_on_volume_collision(),

if the wake-up of pending acquisition is delayed longer than 20 seconds

(e.g., due to the delay of on-demand fd closing), the first

wait_var_event_timeout() will timeout and the following wait_var_event()

will hang forever as shown below:

FS-Cache: Potential volume collision new=00000024 old=00000022

......

INFO: task mount:1148 blocked for more than 122 seconds.

Not tainted 6.1.0-rc6+ #1

task:mount state:D stack:0 pid:1148 ppid:1

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__schedule+0x2f6/0xb80

schedule+0x67/0xe0

fscache_wait_on_volume_collision.cold+0x80/0x82

__fscache_acquire_volume+0x40d/0x4e0

erofs_fscache_register_volume+0x51/0xe0 [erofs]

erofs_fscache_register_fs+0x19c/0x240 [erofs]

erofs_fc_fill_super+0x746/0xaf0 [erofs]

vfs_get_super+0x7d/0x100

get_tree_nodev+0x16/0x20

erofs_fc_get_tree+0x20/0x30 [erofs]

vfs_get_tree+0x24/0xb0

path_mount+0x2fa/0xa90

do_mount+0x7c/0xa0

__x64_sys_mount+0x8b/0xe0

do_syscall_64+0x30/0x60

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Considering that wake_up_bit() is more selective, so fix it by using

wait_on_bit() instead of wait_var_event() to wait for the freeing of

relinquished volume. In addition because waitqueue_active() is used in

wake_up_bit() and clear_bit() doesn't imply any memory barrier, use

clear_and_wake_up_bit() to add the missing memory barrier between

cursor->flags and waitqueue_active().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00228 · 12.9th percentile
Published
2025-03-27T16:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAR 16:43Z
    fscache: Use wait_on_bit() to wait for the freeing of relinquished volume
    cvelistv5