CVE-2024-41051 Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.22.1

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-syms package and not the kernel-syms package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

cachefiles: wait for ondemand_object_worker to finish when dropping object

When queuing ondemand_object_worker() to re-open the object, cachefiles_object is not pinned. The cachefiles_object may be freed when the pending read request is completed intentionally and the related erofs is umounted. If ondemand_object_worker() runs after the object is freed, it will incur use-after-free problem as shown below.

process A processs B process C process D

cachefiles_ondemand_send_req() // send a read req X // wait for its completion

       // close ondemand fd
       cachefiles_ondemand_fd_release()
       // set object as CLOSE

               cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read()
               // set object as REOPENING
               queue_work(fscache_wq, &info->ondemand_work)

                        // close /dev/cachefiles
                        cachefiles_daemon_release
                        cachefiles_flush_reqs
                        complete(&req->done)

// read req X is completed // umount the erofs fs cachefiles_put_object() // object will be freed cachefiles_ondemand_deinit_obj_info() kmem_cache_free(object) // both info and object are freed ondemand_object_worker()

When dropping an object, it is no longer necessary to reopen the object, so use cancel_work_sync() to cancel or wait for ondemand_object_worker() to finish.

• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-41051.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228468
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12e009d60852f7bce0afc373ca0b320f14150418
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b26525b2183632f16a3a4108fe6a4bfa8afac6ed
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3179bae72b1b5e555ba839d6d9f40a350a4d78a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec9289369259d982e735a71437e32e6b4035290c