CVE-2023-52903 io_uring: lock overflowing for IOPOLL

2024-08-2106:10:43

Linux

github.com

linux kernel

vulnerability

io_uring

lock overflowing

iopoll

overflow filling

syzbot

cpu

pid

warning

event overflow

io_req_cqe_overflow

io_fill_cqe_req

io_do_iopoll

io_iopoll_try_reap_events

io_uring_try_cancel_requests

io_ring_exit_work

process_one_work

worker_thread

kthread

flush

uring_lock taken

__io_cqring_overflow_flush

cq waiting path

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

Technical Impact

partial

JSON

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

io_uring: lock overflowing for IOPOLL

syzbot reports an issue with overflow filling for IOPOLL:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 28 at io_uring/io_uring.c:734 io_cqring_event_overflow+0x1c0/0x230 io_uring/io_uring.c:734
CPU: 0 PID: 28 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc3-syzkaller-16369-g358a161a6a9e #0
Workqueue: events_unbound io_ring_exit_work
Call trace:
io_cqring_event_overflow+0x1c0/0x230 io_uring/io_uring.c:734
io_req_cqe_overflow+0x5c/0x70 io_uring/io_uring.c:773
io_fill_cqe_req io_uring/io_uring.h:168 [inline]
io_do_iopoll+0x474/0x62c io_uring/rw.c:1065
io_iopoll_try_reap_events+0x6c/0x108 io_uring/io_uring.c:1513
io_uring_try_cancel_requests+0x13c/0x258 io_uring/io_uring.c:3056
io_ring_exit_work+0xec/0x390 io_uring/io_uring.c:2869
process_one_work+0x2d8/0x504 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
worker_thread+0x340/0x610 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
kthread+0x12c/0x158 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:863

There is no real problem for normal IOPOLL as flush is also called with
uring_lock taken, but it’s getting more complicated for IOPOLL|SQPOLL,
for which __io_cqring_overflow_flush() happens from the CQ waiting path.