CVE-2024-27031

NFS: Fix nfs_netfs_issue_read() xarray locking for writeback interrupt

published May 1, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

NFS: Fix nfs_netfs_issue_read() xarray locking for writeback interrupt

The loop inside nfs_netfs_issue_read() currently does not disable

interrupts while iterating through pages in the xarray to submit

for NFS read. This is not safe though since after taking xa_lock,

another page in the mapping could be processed for writeback inside

an interrupt, and deadlock can occur. The fix is simple and clean

if we use xa_for_each_range(), which handles the iteration with RCU

while reducing code complexity.

The problem is easily reproduced with the following test:

mount -o vers=3,fsc 127.0.0.1:/export /mnt/nfs

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/nfs/file1.bin bs=4096 count=1

echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

dd if=/mnt/nfs/file1.bin of=/dev/null

umount /mnt/nfs

On the console with a lockdep-enabled kernel a message similar to

the following will be seen:

================================

WARNING: inconsistent lock state

6.7.0-lockdbg+ #10 Not tainted

--------------------------------

inconsistent {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} -> {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} usage.

test5/1708 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:

ffff888127baa598 (&xa->xa_lock#4){+.?.}-{3:3}, at:

nfs_netfs_issue_read+0x1b2/0x4b0 [nfs]

{IN-SOFTIRQ-W} state was registered at:

lock_acquire+0x144/0x380

_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4e/0xa0

__folio_end_writeback+0x17e/0x5c0

folio_end_writeback+0x93/0x1b0

iomap_finish_ioend+0xeb/0x6a0

blk_update_request+0x204/0x7f0

blk_mq_end_request+0x30/0x1c0

blk_complete_reqs+0x7e/0xa0

__do_softirq+0x113/0x544

__irq_exit_rcu+0xfe/0x120

irq_exit_rcu+0xe/0x20

sysvec_call_function_single+0x6f/0x90

asm_sysvec_call_function_single+0x1a/0x20

pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20

default_idle+0x9/0x20

default_idle_call+0x67/0xa0

do_idle+0x2b5/0x300

cpu_startup_entry+0x34/0x40

start_secondary+0x19d/0x1c0

secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x18f/0x19b

irq event stamp: 176891

hardirqs last enabled at (176891): [<ffffffffa67a0be4>]

_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x44/0x60

hardirqs last disabled at (176890): [<ffffffffa67a0899>]

_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x79/0xa0

softirqs last enabled at (176646): [<ffffffffa515d91e>]

__irq_exit_rcu+0xfe/0x120

softirqs last disabled at (176633): [<ffffffffa515d91e>]

__irq_exit_rcu+0xfe/0x120

other info that might help us debug this:

Possible unsafe locking scenario:

CPU0

----

lock(&xa->xa_lock#4);

<Interrupt>

lock(&xa->xa_lock#4);

*** DEADLOCK ***

2 locks held by test5/1708:

#0: ffff888127baa498 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#22){++++}-{4:4}, at:

nfs_start_io_read+0x28/0x90 [nfs]

#1: ffff888127baa650 (mapping.invalidate_lock#3){.+.+}-{4:4}, at:

page_cache_ra_unbounded+0xa4/0x280

stack backtrace:

CPU: 6 PID: 1708 Comm: test5 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.7.0-lockdbg+

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-1.fc39

04/01/2014

Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x5b/0x90

mark_lock+0xb3f/0xd20

__lock_acquire+0x77b/0x3360

_raw_spin_lock+0x34/0x80

nfs_netfs_issue_read+0x1b2/0x4b0 [nfs]

netfs_begin_read+0x77f/0x980 [netfs]

nfs_netfs_readahead+0x45/0x60 [nfs]

nfs_readahead+0x323/0x5a0 [nfs]

read_pages+0xf3/0x5c0

page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x1c8/0x280

filemap_get_pages+0x38c/0xae0

filemap_read+0x206/0x5e0

nfs_file_read+0xb7/0x140 [nfs]

vfs_read+0x2a9/0x460

ksys_read+0xb7/0x140

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00200 · 9.4th percentile
Published
2024-05-01T12:53Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 12:53Z
    NFS: Fix nfs_netfs_issue_read() xarray locking for writeback interrupt
    cvelistv5