Deadlock Affecting kernel-debug-modules package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.8.1.el8_10
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELDEBUGMODULES-7044776
- published23 May 2024
- disclosed21 May 2024
Introduced: 21 May 2024
CVE-2023-52813 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-debug-modules to version 0:4.18.0-553.8.1.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:4211.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug-modules package and not the kernel-debug-modules package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: pcrypt - Fix hungtask for PADATA_RESET
We found a hungtask bug in test_aead_vec_cfg as follows:
INFO: task cryptomgr_test:391009 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Call trace: __switch_to+0x98/0xe0 __schedule+0x6c4/0xf40 schedule+0xd8/0x1b4 schedule_timeout+0x474/0x560 wait_for_common+0x368/0x4e0 wait_for_completion+0x20/0x30 wait_for_completion+0x20/0x30 test_aead_vec_cfg+0xab4/0xd50 test_aead+0x144/0x1f0 alg_test_aead+0xd8/0x1e0 alg_test+0x634/0x890 cryptomgr_test+0x40/0x70 kthread+0x1e0/0x220 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks
For padata_do_parallel, when the return err is 0 or -EBUSY, it will call wait_for_completion(&wait->completion) in test_aead_vec_cfg. In normal case, aead_request_complete() will be called in pcrypt_aead_serial and the return err is 0 for padata_do_parallel. But, when pinst->flags is PADATA_RESET, the return err is -EBUSY for padata_do_parallel, and it won't call aead_request_complete(). Therefore, test_aead_vec_cfg will hung at wait_for_completion(&wait->completion), which will cause hungtask.
The problem comes as following: (padata_do_parallel) | rcu_read_lock_bh(); | err = -EINVAL; | (padata_replace) | pinst->flags |= PADATA_RESET; err = -EBUSY | if (pinst->flags & PADATA_RESET) | rcu_read_unlock_bh() | return err
In order to resolve the problem, we replace the return err -EBUSY with -EAGAIN, which means parallel_data is changing, and the caller should call it again.
v3: remove retry and just change the return err. v2: introduce padata_try_do_parallel() in pcrypt_aead_encrypt and pcrypt_aead_decrypt to solve the hungtask.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-52813
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/039fec48e062504f14845124a1a25eb199b2ddc0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/372636debe852913529b1716f44addd94fff2d28
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/546c1796ad1ed0d87dab3c4b5156d75819be2316
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f4f68e788c3a7a696546291258bfa5fdb215523
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c55fc098fd9d2dca475b82d00ffbcaf97879d77e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9c1334697301c10e6918d747ed38abfbc0c96e7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e134f3aba98e6c801a693f540912c2d493718ddf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e97bf4ada7dddacd184c3e196bd063b0dc71b41d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb2d3a50a8f29a3c66682bb426144f40e32ab818