CVE-2024-27031 NFS: Fix nfs_netfs_issue_read() xarray locking for writeback interrupt

2024-05-0112:53:29

Linux

www.cve.org

linux kernel

nfs

writeback interrupt

interrupt handling

deadlock

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

JSON

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

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "fs/nfs/fscache.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "000dbe0bec05",
        "lessThan": "ad27382f8495",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "000dbe0bec05",
        "lessThan": "8df1678c021f",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "000dbe0bec05",
        "lessThan": "8a2e5977cecd",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "000dbe0bec05",
        "lessThan": "fd5860ab6341",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "fs/nfs/fscache.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "6.4",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "6.4",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.6.23",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.7.11",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.7.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.8.2",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.8.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.9",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]