CVE-2024-53176

CVE-2024-53176

Critical · published December 27, 2024

CVSS v3.1
9.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
45.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

smb: During unmount, ensure all cached dir instances drop their dentry

The unmount process (cifs_kill_sb() calling close_all_cached_dirs()) can

race with various cached directory operations, which ultimately results

in dentries not being dropped and these kernel BUGs:

BUG: Dentry ffff88814f37e358{i=1000000000080,n=/} still in use (2) [unmount of cifs cifs]

VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of cifs (cifs)

------------[ cut here ]------------

kernel BUG at fs/super.c:661!

This happens when a cfid is in the process of being cleaned up when, and

has been removed from the cfids->entries list, including:

- Receiving a lease break from the server

- Server reconnection triggers invalidate_all_cached_dirs(), which

removes all the cfids from the list

- The laundromat thread decides to expire an old cfid.

To solve these problems, dropping the dentry is done in queued work done

in a newly-added cfid_put_wq workqueue, and close_all_cached_dirs()

flushes that workqueue after it drops all the dentries of which it's

aware. This is a global workqueue (rather than scoped to a mount), but

the queued work is minimal.

The final cleanup work for cleaning up a cfid is performed via work

queued in the serverclose_wq workqueue; this is done separate from

dropping the dentries so that close_all_cached_dirs() doesn't block on

any server operations.

Both of these queued works expect to invoked with a cfid reference and

a tcon reference to avoid those objects from being freed while the work

is ongoing.

While we're here, add proper locking to close_all_cached_dirs(), and

locking around the freeing of cfid->dentry.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.8 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00559 · 45.8th percentile
Published
2024-12-27T19:15Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.1, < 6.6.646.6.64
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.11.116.11.11
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.12, < 6.12.26.12.2
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 DEC 13:49Z
    smb: During unmount, ensure all cached dir instances drop their dentry
    cvelistv5