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HistoryMay 21, 2024 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2021-47256

2024-05-2100:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
2
linux kernel
memory-failure
vulnerability
resolved
crash dump
page writeback
inode
bug_on
symlink
clear_inode
kernel panic
wait_on_page_writeback

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.4%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/memory-failure: make sure wait for page writeback in memory_failure Our
syzkaller trigger the “BUG_ON(!list_empty(&inode->i_wb_list))” in
clear_inode: kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:519! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0
[#1] SMP Modules linked in: Process syz-executor.0 (pid: 249, stack limit =
0x00000000a12409d7) CPU: 1 PID: 249 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted
4.19.95 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif
-PAN -UAO) pc : clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8 lr : clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8 Call
trace: clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8 ext4_clear_inode+0x38/0xe8
ext4_free_inode+0x130/0xc68 ext4_evict_inode+0xb20/0xcb8 evict+0x1a8/0x3c0
iput+0x344/0x460 do_unlinkat+0x260/0x410 __arm64_sys_unlinkat+0x6c/0xc0
el0_svc_common+0xdc/0x3b0 el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160 el0_svc+0x10/0x218
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception A crash dump of this problem
show that someone called __munlock_pagevec to clear page LRU without
lock_page: do_mmap -> mmap_region -> do_munmap -> munlock_vma_pages_range
-> __munlock_pagevec. As a result memory_failure will call
identify_page_state without wait_on_page_writeback. And after
truncate_error_page clear the mapping of this page. end_page_writeback
won’t call sb_clear_inode_writeback to clear inode->i_wb_list. That will
trigger BUG_ON in clear_inode! Fix it by checking PageWriteback too to help
determine should we skip wait_on_page_writeback.

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.4%

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