CVE-2022-49765 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/9p: use a dedicated spinlock for trans_fd

Shamelessly copying the explanation from Tetsuo Handa’s suggested patch[1] (slightly reworded): syzbot is reporting inconsistent lock state in p9_req_put()[2] for p9_tag_remove() from p9_req_put() from IRQ context is using spin_lock_irqsave() on \struct p9_client->lock but trans_fd (not from IRQ context) is using spin_lock().

Since the locks actually protect different things in client.c and in trans_fd.c just replace trans_fd.c’s lock by a new one specific to the transport (client.c’s protect the idr for fid/tag allocations while trans_fd.c’s protects its own req list and request status field that acts as the transport’s state machine)

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/296ab4a813841ba1d5f40b03190fd1bd8f25aab0 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43bbadb7e4636dc02f6a283c2a39e6438e6173cd https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/717b9b4f38703d7f5293059e3a242d16f76fa045