Critical · published December 16, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
libceph: fix potential use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map()
The wait loop in __ceph_open_session() can race with the client
receiving a new monmap or osdmap shortly after the initial map is
received. Both ceph_monc_handle_map() and handle_one_map() install
a new map immediately after freeing the old one
kfree(monc->monmap);
monc->monmap = monmap;
ceph_osdmap_destroy(osdc->osdmap);
osdc->osdmap = newmap;
under client->monc.mutex and client->osdc.lock respectively, but
because neither is taken in have_mon_and_osd_map() it's possible for
client->monc.monmap->epoch and client->osdc.osdmap->epoch arms in
client->monc.monmap && client->monc.monmap->epoch &&
client->osdc.osdmap && client->osdc.osdmap->epoch;
condition to dereference an already freed map. This happens to be
reproducible with generic/395 and generic/397 with KASAN enabled:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map+0x56/0x70
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88811012d810 by task mount.ceph/13305
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 13305 Comm: mount.ceph Not tainted 6.14.0-rc2-build2+ #1266
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
have_mon_and_osd_map+0x56/0x70
ceph_open_session+0x182/0x290
ceph_get_tree+0x333/0x680
vfs_get_tree+0x49/0x180
do_new_mount+0x1a3/0x2d0
path_mount+0x6dd/0x730
do_mount+0x99/0xe0
__do_sys_mount+0x141/0x180
do_syscall_64+0x9f/0x100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
</TASK>
Allocated by task 13305:
ceph_osdmap_alloc+0x16/0x130
ceph_osdc_init+0x27a/0x4c0
ceph_create_client+0x153/0x190
create_fs_client+0x50/0x2a0
ceph_get_tree+0xff/0x680
vfs_get_tree+0x49/0x180
do_new_mount+0x1a3/0x2d0
path_mount+0x6dd/0x730
do_mount+0x99/0xe0
__do_sys_mount+0x141/0x180
do_syscall_64+0x9f/0x100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
Freed by task 9475:
kfree+0x212/0x290
handle_one_map+0x23c/0x3b0
ceph_osdc_handle_map+0x3c9/0x590
mon_dispatch+0x655/0x6f0
ceph_con_process_message+0xc3/0xe0
ceph_con_v1_try_read+0x614/0x760
ceph_con_workfn+0x2de/0x650
process_one_work+0x486/0x7c0
process_scheduled_works+0x73/0x90
worker_thread+0x1c8/0x2a0
kthread+0x2ec/0x300
ret_from_fork+0x24/0x40
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
Rewrite the wait loop to check the above condition directly with
client->monc.mutex and client->osdc.lock taken as appropriate. While
at it, improve the timeout handling (previously mount_timeout could be
exceeded in case wait_event_interruptible_timeout() slept more than
once) and access client->auth_err under client->monc.mutex to match
how it's set in finish_auth().
monmap_show() and osdmap_show() now take the respective lock before
accessing the map as well.