In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: protect clcsock…

Why it is Yellow

• CVSS 7.8 high
• On your watchlist: linux kernel

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1512e3714b3946bda75a160a34f22a51710daa43
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64a6b36b0e1855288080bc5f89769f27d6dc03c8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a1833f0d7dc037c8e876b9178ba69d5d107c086
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c223da71abfaea2ebb1c7208ae9ebf15038f9388
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e607017a553d2a48e428ec8b8ffb06bf3bb92ce9

Original description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: protect clcsock lifetime in smc_getname smc_getname() dereferences smc->clcsock without holding clcsock_release_lock. Link-group termination can release the CLC socket through smc_close_active_abort() while the SMC socket is still open, for example after shutdown(SHUT_WR). A getsockname() caller can load smc->clcsock, then the termination worker can clear the pointer and call sock_release() before the caller accesses clcsock->ops or invokes getname(). This causes a use-after-free; if the worker clears the pointer before the load, it causes a NULL dereference. The syscall's file reference keeps the SMC socket alive but does not prevent asynchronous release of its CLC socket. KASAN reported the following with test-only timing instrumentation: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in smc_getname+0x19e/0x1b0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888109abb4e0 by task poc/103 Call Trace: smc_getname+0x19e/0x1b0 do_getsockname+0xe5/0x170 __sys_getsockname+0x8c/0x100 Allocated by task 95: sock_alloc_inode+0x1e/0x280 sock_alloc+0x3d/0x240 __sock_create+0x7e/0x430 smc_create+0x121/0x240 Freed by task 0: kmem_cache_free+0xcc/0x340 rcu_core+0x50a/0x1850 Last potentially related work creation: evict+0x446/0x6c0 smc_clcsock_release+0xa8/0xd0 smc_close_active_abort+0x26a/0x3a0 __smc_lgr_terminate.part.0+0x137/0x2e0 Hold clcsock_release_lock across the pointer check and the getname() callback to serialize with smc_clcsock_release(). Return -EBADF if the CLC socket has already been released, preserving the existing peer state check and the callback's return value otherwise.