CVE-2021-47637 Information

Mar 01, 2025 cve

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ubifs: Fix deadlock in concurrent rename whiteout and inode writeback

Following hung tasks: [ 77.028764] task:kworker/u8:4 state:D stack: 0 pid: 132 [ 77.028820] Call Trace: [ 77.029027] schedule+0x8c/0x1b0 [ 77.029067] mutex_lock+0x50/0x60 [ 77.029074] ubifs_write_inode+0x68/0x1f0 [ubifs] [ 77.029117] __writeback_single_inode+0x43c/0x570 [ 77.029128] writeback_sb_inodes+0x259/0x740 [ 77.029148] wb_writeback+0x107/0x4d0 [ 77.029163] wb_workfn+0x162/0x7b0

[ 92.390442] task:aa state:D stack: 0 pid: 1506 [ 92.390448] Call Trace: [ 92.390458] schedule+0x8c/0x1b0 [ 92.390461] wb_wait_for_completion+0x82/0xd0 [ 92.390469] __writeback_inodes_sb_nr+0xb2/0x110 [ 92.390472] writeback_inodes_sb_nr+0x14/0x20 [ 92.390476] ubifs_budget_space+0x705/0xdd0 [ubifs] [ 92.390503] do_rename.cold+0x7f/0x187 [ubifs] [ 92.390549] ubifs_rename+0x8b/0x180 [ubifs] [ 92.390571] vfs_rename+0xdb2/0x1170 [ 92.390580] do_renameat2+0x554/0x770

are caused by concurrent rename whiteout and inode writeback processes: rename_whiteout(Thread 1) wb_workfn(Thread2) ubifs_rename do_rename lock_4_inodes (Hold ui_mutex) ubifs_budget_space make_free_space shrink_liability __writeback_inodes_sb_nr bdi_split_work_to_wbs (Queue new wb work) wb_do_writeback(wb work) __writeback_single_inode ubifs_write_inode LOCK(ui_mutex) ? wb_wait_for_completion (Wait wb work) <– deadlock!

Reproducer (Detail program in [Link]):

  1. SYS_renameat2(/mp/dir/file\ /mp/dir/whiteout\ RENAME_WHITEOUT)
  2. Consume out of space before kernel(mdelay) doing budget for whiteout

Fix it by doing whiteout space budget before locking ubifs inodes. BTW it also fixes wrong goto tag ‘out_release’ in whiteout budget error handling path(It should at least recover dir i_size and unlock 4 ubifs inodes).

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37bdf1ad592555ecda1d55b89f6e393e4c0589d1 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70e9090acc32348cedc5def0cd6d5c126efc97b9 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83e42a78428fc354f5e2049935b84c8d8d29b787 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b278c8dcfb565cb65eceb62a38cbf7a7c326db5 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9dddc8211430fb851ddf0b168e3a00c6f66cc185 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afd427048047e8efdedab30e8888044e2be5aa9c https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c58af8564a7b08757173009030b74baf4b2b762b

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