CVE-2021-46988

Published: 28 February 2024

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: userfaultfd: release page in error path to avoid BUG_ON Consider the following sequence of events: 1. Userspace issues a UFFD ioctl, which ends up calling into shmem_mfill_atomic_pte(). We successfully account the blocks, we shmem_alloc_page(), but then the copy_from_user() fails. We return -ENOENT. We don't release the page we allocated. 2. Our caller detects this error code, tries the copy_from_user() after dropping the mmap_lock, and retries, calling back into shmem_mfill_atomic_pte(). 3. Meanwhile, let's say another process filled up the tmpfs being used. 4. So shmem_mfill_atomic_pte() fails to account blocks this time, and immediately returns - without releasing the page. This triggers a BUG_ON in our caller, which asserts that the page should always be consumed, unless -ENOENT is returned. To fix this, detect if we have such a "dangling" page when accounting fails, and if so, release it before returning.

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References

• https://git.kernel.org/linus/7ed9d238c7dbb1fdb63ad96a6184985151b0171c (5.13-rc2)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/319116227e52d49eee671f0aa278bac89b3c1b69
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07c9b834c97d0fa3402fb7f3f3b32df370a6ff1f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3f1731c6d7fbc1ebe3ed8eff6d6bec56d76ff43
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/140cfd9980124aecb6c03ef2e69c72d0548744de
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad53127973034c63b5348715a1043d0e80ceb330
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d59a0ed8b26b8f3638d8afc31f839e27759f1f6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ed9d238c7dbb1fdb63ad96a6184985151b0171c
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46988
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian