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HistoryAug 08, 2024 - 8:49 a.m.

CVE-2024-42256 cifs: Fix server re-repick on subrequest retry

2024-08-0808:49:15
Linux
github.com
2
linux kernel
cifs
vulnerability
resolved
server
subrequest
retry
smb2_async_writev
misaccounting
warning
azure
multichannel mode
xfstests

AI Score

7

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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

cifs: Fix server re-repick on subrequest retry

When a subrequest is marked for needing retry, netfs will call
cifs_prepare_write() which will make cifs repick the server for the op
before renegotiating credits; it then calls cifs_issue_write() which
invokes smb2_async_writev() - which re-repicks the server.

If a different server is then selected, this causes the increment of
server->in_flight to happen against one record and the decrement to happen
against another, leading to misaccounting.

Fix this by just removing the repick code in smb2_async_writev(). As this
is only called from netfslib-driven code, cifs_prepare_write() should
always have been called first, and so server should never be NULL and the
preparatory step is repeated in the event that we do a retry.

The problem manifests as a warning looking something like:

WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 72896 at fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c:97 smb2_add_credits+0x3f0/0x9e0 [cifs]

RIP: 0010:smb2_add_credits+0x3f0/0x9e0 [cifs]

smb2_writev_callback+0x334/0x560 [cifs]
cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x77a/0x11b0 [cifs]
kthread+0x187/0x1d0
ret_from_fork+0x34/0x60
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Which may be triggered by a number of different xfstests running against an
Azure server in multichannel mode. generic/249 seems the most repeatable,
but generic/215, generic/249 and generic/308 may also show it.

AI Score

7

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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