Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: drm/vgem-fence: Fixed potential deadlock issues upon release. A timer that automatically releases a vgem fence after 10 seconds is now implemented. This is achieved by calling timerdeletesync from fence-ops.release, which is...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: Do not set the encryption key during the jbd2 transaction. A commit labeled “a80f7fcf1867” “ext4: fixup ext4fctrack functions’ signature” extended the scope of the transaction in ext4unlink too far, causing it to include a...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: “aoe”: avoided potential deadlock at setcapacity. setcapacity has been moved outside of the section handled by &d-lock. This prevents possible unsafe locking scenarios due to interrupts. Here’s the sequence of events: 1...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: “PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV” This fix reverts to commit 05703271c3cd “PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV”, which caused a deadlock by recursively takin...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: lpi2c: Avoid calling clkgetrate during transfer Instead of repeatedly calling clkgetrate for each transfer, lock the clock rate and cache the value. A deadlock was observed when adding the tlv320aic32x4 audio codec to the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers: staging: rtl8192u: Fixed a deadlock in ieee80211beaconsstop. There is a deadlock in ieee80211beaconsstop, as shown below: Thread 1 | Thread 2 | ieee80211sendbeacon ieee80211beaconsstop | modtimer spinlockirqsave //1 | Wa...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: Fixed the lockdep splat issue and potential deadlock that occurs after running delayed items. When running delayed items, we hold the mutex of the delayed node. Then, we attempt to modify a subvolume btree to insert, updat...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: Avoid deadlock in sriovnumvfsstore caused by pcidevlock The sysfs sriovnumvfsstore path acquires the device lock before the config space access lock: sriovnumvfsstore devicelock A 1 acquires the device lock sriovconfigure...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hcicore: cancels all operations upon calling hciunregisterdev. The syzbot reports that calling hcireleasedev from hcierrorreset can cause a deadlock at destroyworkqueue. This occurs because hcierrorreset is called from...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: In the md subsystem, there was a issue where the “activeio” value was not properly released after the submitflushes function was called. This caused the “activeio” value to remain unreleased, leading to a situation where...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: megaraidsas: Fix for a potential deadlock. This fix resolves the “possible circular locking dependency detected” warning. CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock&instance-resetmutex; lock&shost-scanmutex; lock&instance-resetmutex;...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/memory-failure: fixed a deadlock that occurred when hugetlboptimizevmemmap was enabled. When I performed hard offline tests with hugetlb pages, a deadlock occurred as follows:...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fixed a deadlock in waitcurrenttrans due to an ignored transaction type When waitcurrenttrans is called during starttransaction, it currently waits for a blocked transaction without considering whether the given transactio...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid5-cache: fixed a deadlock in r5lexitlog. The commit b13015af94cf “md/raid5-cache: Clear conf-log after finishing work” introduced a new problem: // The caller holds reconfigmutex r5lexitlog flushwork&log-disablewritebackwo...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: Fix potential AB/BA lock issue with buffermutex and mmaplock The syzbot tool detected a potential deadlock between the runtime-buffermutex and the mm-mmaplock. This issue arose due to the recent fix related to racy...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: flexproportions: making fpropnewperiod safe from hardirq issues. Bernd reported a deadlock issue in the flexible proportions code, which essentially complained about the following race conditions: runtimersoftirq – we’re in a...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: enetc: avoid deadlock in enetctxonesteptstamp This lockdep message explains it better than I could: ================================= WARNING: inconsistent lock state 6.2.0-rc2-07010-ga9b9500ffaac-dirty 967 Not tainted...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Audit: Improved robustness of audit queue handling If the audit daemon becomes stuck in a stopped state, the kauditdthread function in the kernel might get blocked while attempting to send audit records to the audit daemon in the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: mediatek – Performing a runtime PM get operation on controllers during probing. The mt8183-mfgcfg component has a mutual dependency with genpd during the probing stage, which leads to a deadlock in the following call stack:...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: nilfs2: Fix for a use-after-free of the timer for the log writer thread This patch series, titled “nilfs2: Fix for log writer-related issues”, addresses three issues related to the nilfs2 log writer. These include a...