CVE-2022-49406 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

block: Fix potential deadlock in blk_ia_range_sysfs_show()

When being read a sysfs attribute is already protected against removal with the kobject node active reference counter. As a result in blk_ia_range_sysfs_show() there is no need to take the queue sysfs lock when reading the value of a range attribute. Using the queue sysfs lock in this function creates a potential deadlock situation with the disk removal something that a lockdep signals with a splat when the device is removed:

[ 760.703551] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 760.703551] [ 760.703554] CPU0 CPU1 [ 760.703556] —- —- [ 760.703558] lock(&q->sysfs_lock); [ 760.703565] lock(kn->active385); [ 760.703573] lock(&q->sysfs_lock); [ 760.703579] lock(kn->active385); [ 760.703587] [ 760.703587] DEADLOCK

Solve this by removing the mutex_lock()/mutex_unlock() calls from blk_ia_range_sysfs_show().

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41e46b3c2aa24f755b2ae9ec4ce931ba5f0d8532 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/717b078bc745ba9a262abebed9806a17e8bbb77b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc107c805cde709866b59867ef72b9390199205e