CVE-2022-49941

This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority.

This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority.

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

tty: n_gsm: avoid call of sleeping functions from atomic context

Syzkaller reports the following problem:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/printk/printk.c:2347 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1105, name: syz-executor423 3 locks held by syz-executor423/1105: #0: ffff8881468b9098 (&tty->ldisc_sem){++++}-{0:0}, at: tty_ldisc_ref_wait+0x22/0x90 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:266 #1: ffff8881468b9130 (&tty->atomic_write_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: tty_write_lock drivers/tty/tty_io.c:952 [inline] #1: ffff8881468b9130 (&tty->atomic_write_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: do_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:975 [inline] #1: ffff8881468b9130 (&tty->atomic_write_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: file_tty_write.constprop.0+0x2a8/0x8e0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1118 #2: ffff88801b06c398 (&gsm->tx_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: gsmld_write+0x5e/0x150 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:2717 irq event stamp: 3482 hardirqs last enabled at (3481): [<ffffffff81d13343>] __get_reqs_available+0x143/0x2f0 fs/aio.c:946 hardirqs last disabled at (3482): [<ffffffff87d39722>] __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:108 [inline] hardirqs last disabled at (3482): [<ffffffff87d39722>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x52/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:159 softirqs last enabled at (3408): [<ffffffff87e01002>] asm_call_irq_on_stack+0x12/0x20 softirqs last disabled at (3401): [<ffffffff87e01002>] asm_call_irq_on_stack+0x12/0x20 Preemption disabled at: [<0000000000000000>] 0x0 CPU: 2 PID: 1105 Comm: syz-executor423 Not tainted 5.10.137-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline] dump_stack+0x107/0x167 lib/dump_stack.c:118 ___might_sleep.cold+0x1e8/0x22e kernel/sched/core.c:7304 console_lock+0x19/0x80 kernel/printk/printk.c:2347 do_con_write+0x113/0x1de0 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:2909 con_write+0x22/0xc0 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3296 gsmld_write+0xd0/0x150 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:2720 do_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1028 [inline] file_tty_write.constprop.0+0x502/0x8e0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1118 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:1903 [inline] aio_write+0x355/0x7b0 fs/aio.c:1580 __io_submit_one fs/aio.c:1952 [inline] io_submit_one+0xf45/0x1a90 fs/aio.c:1999 __do_sys_io_submit fs/aio.c:2058 [inline] __se_sys_io_submit fs/aio.c:2028 [inline] __x64_sys_io_submit+0x18c/0x2f0 fs/aio.c:2028 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6

The problem happens in the following control flow:

gsmld_write(...) spin_lock_irqsave(&gsm->tx_lock, flags) // taken a spinlock on TX data con_write(...) do_con_write(...) console_lock() might_sleep() // -> bug

As far as console_lock() might sleep it should not be called with spinlock held.

The patch replaces tx_lock spinlock with mutex in order to avoid the problem.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Rejected reason: This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority.

Rejected reason: This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority.

Root has patched CVE-2022-49941 in the linux package for Root:Ubuntu:22.04. Multiple fixed versions available.

Rejected reason: This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority.