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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-46921: kernel security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-46921: kernel security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/27/2024
Created
07/23/2024
Added
07/23/2024
Modified
07/23/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: locking/qrwlock: Fix ordering in queued_write_lock_slowpath() While this code is executed with the wait_lock held, a reader can acquire the lock without holding wait_lock. The writer side loops checking the value with the atomic_cond_read_acquire(), but only truly acquires the lock when the compare-and-exchange is completed successfully which isn’t ordered. This exposes the window between the acquire and the cmpxchg to an A-B-A problem which allows reads following the lock acquisition to observe values speculatively before the write lock is truly acquired. We've seen a problem in epoll where the reader does a xchg while holding the read lock, but the writer can see a value change out from under it. Writer | Reader -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ep_scan_ready_list() | |- write_lock_irq() | |- queued_write_lock_slowpath() | |- atomic_cond_read_acquire() | | read_lock_irqsave(&ep->lock, flags); --> (observes value before unlock) | chain_epi_lockless() | | epi->next = xchg(&ep->ovflist, epi); | | read_unlock_irqrestore(&ep->lock, flags); | | | atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed() | |-- READ_ONCE(ep->ovflist); | A core can order the read of the ovflist ahead of the atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed(). Switching the cmpxchg to use acquire semantics addresses this issue at which point the atomic_cond_read can be switched to use relaxed semantics. [peterz: use try_cmpxchg()]

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-bpftool
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-kernel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-kernel-tools
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-perf
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python-perf
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python3-perf

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