CVE-2022-49407: dlm: fix plock invalid read

Published Feb 26, 2025
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Updated

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

dlm: fix plock invalid read

This patch fixes an invalid read showed by KASAN. A unlock will allocate a "struct plockop" and a followed sendop() will append it to a global sendlist data structure. In some cases a followed devread() moves it to recvlist and devwrite() will cast it to "struct plockxop" and access fields which are only available in those structures. At this point an invalid read happens by accessing those fields.

To fix this issue the "callback" field is moved to "struct plockop" to indicate that a cast to "plockxop" is allowed and does the additional "plockxop" handling if set.

Example of the KASAN output which showed the invalid read:

[ 2064.296453] ================================================================== [ 2064.304852] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in devwrite+0x52b/0x5a0 [dlm] [ 2064.306491] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800ef227d8 by task dlmcontrold/7484 [ 2064.308168] [ 2064.308575] CPU: 0 PID: 7484 Comm: dlmcontrold Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.14.0+ #9 [ 2064.310292] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011 [ 2064.311618] Call Trace: [ 2064.312218] dumpstacklvl+0x56/0x7b [ 2064.313150] printaddressdescription.constprop.8+0x21/0x150 [ 2064.314578] ? devwrite+0x52b/0x5a0 [dlm] [ 2064.315610] ? devwrite+0x52b/0x5a0 [dlm] [ 2064.316595] kasanreport.cold.14+0x7f/0x11b [ 2064.317674] ? devwrite+0x52b/0x5a0 [dlm] [ 2064.318687] devwrite+0x52b/0x5a0 [dlm] [ 2064.319629] ? devread+0x4a0/0x4a0 [dlm] [ 2064.320713] ? bpflsmkernfsinitsecurity+0x10/0x10 [ 2064.321926] vfswrite+0x17e/0x930 [ 2064.322769] ? fgetlight+0x1aa/0x220 [ 2064.323753] ksyswrite+0xf1/0x1c0 [ 2064.324548] ? ia32sysread+0xb0/0xb0 [ 2064.325464] dosyscall64+0x3a/0x80 [ 2064.326387] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x44/0xae [ 2064.327606] RIP: 0033:0x7f807e4ba96f [ 2064.328470] Code: 89 54 24 18 48 89 74 24 10 89 7c 24 08 e8 39 87 f8 ff 48 8b 54 24 18 48 8b 74 24 10 41 89 c0 8b 7c 24 08 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 31 44 89 c7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 7c 87 f8 ff 48 [ 2064.332902] RSP: 002b:00007ffd50cfe6e0 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIGRAX: 0000000000000001 [ 2064.334658] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055cc3886eb30 RCX: 00007f807e4ba96f [ 2064.336275] RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 00007ffd50cfe7e0 RDI: 0000000000000010 [ 2064.337980] RBP: 00007ffd50cfe7e0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 [ 2064.339560] R10: 000055cc3886eb30 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 000055cc3886eb80 [ 2064.341237] R13: 000055cc3886eb00 R14: 000055cc3886f590 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 2064.342857] [ 2064.343226] Allocated by task 12438: [ 2064.344057] kasansavestack+0x1c/0x40 [ 2064.345079] kasankmalloc+0x84/0xa0 [ 2064.345933] kmemcachealloctrace+0x13b/0x220 [ 2064.346953] dlmposixunlock+0xec/0x720 [dlm] [ 2064.348811] dolockfilewait.part.32+0xca/0x1d0 [ 2064.351070] fcntlsetlk+0x281/0xbc0 [ 2064.352879] dofcntl+0x5e4/0xfe0 [ 2064.354657] x64sysfcntl+0x11f/0x170 [ 2064.356550] dosyscall64+0x3a/0x80 [ 2064.358259] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x44/0xae [ 2064.360745] [ 2064.361511] Last potentially related work creation: [ 2064.363957] kasansavestack+0x1c/0x40 [ 2064.365811] kasanrecordauxstack+0xaf/0xc0 [ 2064.368100] callrcu+0x11b/0xf70 [ 2064.369785] dlmprocessincomingbuffer+0x47d/0xfd0 [dlm] [ 2064.372404] receivefromsock+0x290/0x770 [dlm] [ 2064.374607] processrecvsockets+0x32/0x40 [dlm] [ 2064.377290] processonework+0x9a8/0x16e0 [ 2064.379357] workerthread+0x87/0xbf0 [ 2064.381188] kthread+0x3ac/0x490 [ 2064.383460] retfromfork+0x22/0x30 [ 2064.385588] [ 2064.386518] Second to last potentially related work creation: [ 2064.389219] kasansavestack+0x1c/0x40 [ 2064.391043] kasanrecordauxstack+0xaf/0xc0 [ 2064.393303] callrcu+0x11b/0xf70 [ 2064.394885] dlmprocessincomingbuffer+0x47d/0xfd0 [dlm] [ 2064.397694] receivefromsock+0x290/0x770 ---truncated---

Other sources

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

dlm: fix plock invalid read

This patch fixes an invalid read showed by KASAN. A unlock will allocate a "struct plockop" and a followed sendop() will append it to a global sendlist data structure. In some cases a followed devread() moves it to recvlist and devwrite() will cast it to "struct plockxop" and access fields which are only available in those structures. At this point an invalid read happens by accessing those fields.

To fix this issue the "callback" field is moved to "struct plockop" to indicate that a cast to "plockxop" is allowed and does the additional "plockxop" handling if set.

Example of the KASAN output which showed the invalid read:

[ 2064.296453] ================================================================== [ 2064.304852] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in devwrite+0x52b/0x5a0 [dlm] [ 2064.306491] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800ef227d8 by task dlmcontrold/7484 [ 2064.308168] [ 2064.308575] CPU: 0 PID: 7484 Comm: dlmcontrold Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.14.0+ #9 [ 2064.310292] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011 [ 2064.311618] Call Trace: [ 2064.312218] dumpstacklvl+0x56/0x7b [ 2064.313150] printaddressdescription.constprop.8+0x21/0x150 [ 2064.314578] ? devwrite+0x52b/0x5a0 [dlm] [ 2064.315610] ? devwrite+0x52b/0x5a0 [dlm] [ 2064.316595] kasanreport.cold.14+0x7f/0x11b [ 2064.317674] ? devwrite+0x52b/0x5a0 [dlm] [ 2064.318687] devwrite+0x52b/0x5a0 [dlm] [ 2064.319629] ? devread+0x4a0/0x4a0 [dlm] [ 2064.320713] ? bpflsmkernfsinitsecurity+0x10/0x10 [ 2064.321926] vfswrite+0x17e/0x930 [ 2064.322769] ? fgetlight+0x1aa/0x220 [ 2064.323753] ksyswrite+0xf1/0x1c0 [ 2064.324548] ? ia32sysread+0xb0/0xb0 [ 2064.325464] dosyscall64+0x3a/0x80 [ 2064.326387] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x44/0xae [ 2064.327606] RIP: 0033:0x7f807e4ba96f [ 2064.328470] Code: 89 54 24 18 48 89 74 24 10 89 7c 24 08 e8 39 87 f8 ff 48 8b 54 24 18 48 8b 74 24 10 41 89 c0 8b 7c 24 08 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 31 44 89 c7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 7c 87 f8 ff 48 [ 2064.332902] RSP: 002b:00007ffd50cfe6e0 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIGRAX: 0000000000000001 [ 2064.334658] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055cc3886eb30 RCX: 00007f807e4ba96f [ 2064.336275] RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 00007ffd50cfe7e0 RDI: 0000000000000010 [ 2064.337980] RBP: 00007ffd50cfe7e0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 [ 2064.339560] R10: 000055cc3886eb30 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 000055cc3886eb80 [ 2064.341237] R13: 000055cc3886eb00 R14: 000055cc3886f590 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 2064.342857] [ 2064.343226] Allocated by task 12438: [ 2064.344057] kasansavestack+0x1c/0x40 [ 2064.345079] kasankmalloc+0x84/0xa0 [ 2064.345933] kmemcachealloctrace+0x13b/0x220 [ 2064.346953] dlmposixunlock+0xec/0x720 [dlm] [ 2064.348811] dolockfilewait.part.32+0xca/0x1d0 [ 2064.351070] fcntlsetlk+0x281/0xbc0 [ 2064.352879] dofcntl+0x5e4/0xfe0 [ 2064.354657] x64sysfcntl+0x11f/0x170 [ 2064.356550] dosyscall64+0x3a/0x80 [ 2064.358259] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x44/0xae [ 2064.360745] [ 2064.361511] Last potentially related work creation: [ 2064.363957] kasansavestack+0x1c/0x40 [ 2064.365811] kasanrecordauxstack+0xaf/0xc0 [ 2064.368100] callrcu+0x11b/0xf70 [ 2064.369785] dlmprocessincomingbuffer+0x47d/0xfd0 [dlm] [ 2064.372404] receivefromsock+0x290/0x770 [dlm] [ 2064.374607] processrecvsockets+0x32/0x40 [dlm] [ 2064.377290] processonework+0x9a8/0x16e0 [ 2064.379357] workerthread+0x87/0xbf0 [ 2064.381188] kthread+0x3ac/0x490 [ 2064.383460] retfromfork+0x22/0x30 [ 2064.385588] [ 2064.386518] Second to last potentially related work creation: [ 2064.389219] kasansavestack+0x1c/0x40 [ 2064.391043] kasanrecordauxstack+0xaf/0xc0 [ 2064.393303] callrcu+0x11b/0xf70 [ 2064.394885] dlmprocessincomingbuffer+0x47d/0xfd0 [dlm] [ 2064.397694] receivefromsock+0x290/0x770 ---truncated---

NVD

Affected Software

9 affected components
Linux Kernel
Linux Linux kernel>=2.6.22<4.9.318
Linux Linux kernel>=4.10<4.14.283
Linux Linux kernel>=4.15<4.19.247
Linux Linux kernel>=4.20<5.4.198
Linux Linux kernel>=5.5<5.10.121
Linux Linux kernel>=5.11<5.15.46
Linux Linux kernel>=5.16<5.17.14
Linux Linux kernel>=5.18<5.18.3

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch dlm: fix plock invalid read

Event History

Feb 26, 2025
CVE Published
via MITRE·02:12 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·02:12 AM
DescriptionSeverity
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·03:02 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software
Data Sourced
via NVD·07:01 AM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software

Frequently Asked Questions

1

Which systems are exposed to this issue?

Systems using the Linux kernel's DLM component and exercising its plock device operations are implicated. The reported failure occurred in the dlm_controld process while handling plock operations.

2

What condition triggers the invalid read?

The issue can occur when an unlock allocates a struct plock_op, send_op() appends it to the global send_list, dev_read() moves it to recv_list, and dev_write() then incorrectly casts it to struct plock_xop and accesses fields not present in struct plock_op.

3

How can an affected system be identified?

KASAN can report a slab-out-of-bounds read in the DLM module's dev_write function. The example report identifies the accessing task as dlm_controld and labels the fault as "KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in dev_write".

4

What does the fix change?

The fix moves the callback field into struct plock_op. This field indicates whether casting the operation to struct plock_xop is permitted before performing additional plock_xop-specific handling.

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