Race Condition Affecting kernel-tools package, versions <0:4.18.0-305.131.1.el8_4

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools package and not the kernel-tools 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:

net: bridge: use DEV_STATS_INC()

syzbot/KCSAN reported data-races in br_handle_frame_finish() [1] This function can run from multiple cpus without mutual exclusion.

Adopt SMP safe DEV_STATS_INC() to update dev->stats fields.

Handles updates to dev->stats.tx_dropped while we are at it.

[1] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in br_handle_frame_finish / br_handle_frame_finish

read-write to 0xffff8881374b2178 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1: br_handle_frame_finish+0xd4f/0xef0 net/bridge/br_input.c:189 br_nf_hook_thresh+0x1ed/0x220 br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x50f/0x540 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:304 [inline] br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x1e3/0x2a0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:178 br_nf_pre_routing+0x526/0xba0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:508 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:144 [inline] nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:272 [inline] br_handle_frame+0x4c9/0x940 net/bridge/br_input.c:417 __netif_receive_skb_core+0xa8a/0x21e0 net/core/dev.c:5417 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5521 [inline] __netif_receive_skb+0x57/0x1b0 net/core/dev.c:5637 process_backlog+0x21f/0x380 net/core/dev.c:5965 __napi_poll+0x60/0x3b0 net/core/dev.c:6527 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6594 [inline] net_rx_action+0x32b/0x750 net/core/dev.c:6727 __do_softirq+0xc1/0x265 kernel/softirq.c:553 run_ksoftirqd+0x17/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:921 smpboot_thread_fn+0x30a/0x4a0 kernel/smpboot.c:164 kthread+0x1d7/0x210 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304

read-write to 0xffff8881374b2178 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0: br_handle_frame_finish+0xd4f/0xef0 net/bridge/br_input.c:189 br_nf_hook_thresh+0x1ed/0x220 br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x50f/0x540 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:304 [inline] br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x1e3/0x2a0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:178 br_nf_pre_routing+0x526/0xba0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:508 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:144 [inline] nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:272 [inline] br_handle_frame+0x4c9/0x940 net/bridge/br_input.c:417 __netif_receive_skb_core+0xa8a/0x21e0 net/core/dev.c:5417 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5521 [inline] __netif_receive_skb+0x57/0x1b0 net/core/dev.c:5637 process_backlog+0x21f/0x380 net/core/dev.c:5965 __napi_poll+0x60/0x3b0 net/core/dev.c:6527 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6594 [inline] net_rx_action+0x32b/0x750 net/core/dev.c:6727 __do_softirq+0xc1/0x265 kernel/softirq.c:553 do_softirq+0x5e/0x90 kernel/softirq.c:454 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x64/0x70 kernel/softirq.c:381 __raw_spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:167 [inline] _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x36/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:210 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline] batadv_tt_local_purge+0x1a8/0x1f0 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:1356 batadv_tt_purge+0x2b/0x630 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:3560 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2630 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0x5b8/0xa30 kernel/workqueue.c:2703 worker_thread+0x525/0x730 kernel/workqueue.c:2784 kthread+0x1d7/0x210 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304

value changed: 0x00000000000d7190 -> 0x00000000000d7191

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 0 PID: 14848 Comm: kworker/u4:11 Not tainted 6.6.0-rc1-syzkaller-00236-gad8a69f361b9 #0

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-52578
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04cc361f029c14dd067ad180525c7392334c9bfd
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44bdb313da57322c9b3c108eb66981c6ec6509f4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89f9f20b1cbd36d99d5a248a4bf8d11d4fd049a2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bc97117b51d68d5cea8f5351cca2d8c4153f394
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad8d39c7b437fcdab7208a6a56c093d222c008d5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2346e6beb699909ca455d9d20c4e577ce900839
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2ef4cb4d418fa64fe73eb84d10cc5c0e52e00fa