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CVE-2024-50265

Disclosure Date: November 19, 2024 •
CVE-2024-50265
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Description

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

ocfs2: remove entry once instead of null-ptr-dereference in ocfs2_xa_remove()

Syzkaller is able to provoke null-ptr-dereference in ocfs2_xa_remove():

57.319872:ocfs2_xa_remove:2028 ERROR: status = -12
57.320420:ocfs2_xa_cleanup_value_truncate:1999 ERROR: Partial truncate while removing xattr overlay.upper. Leaking 1 clusters and removing the entry
[ 57.321727] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000004
[…]
[ 57.325727] RIP: 0010:ocfs2_xa_block_wipe_namevalue+0x2a/0xc0
[…]
[ 57.331328] Call Trace:
[ 57.331477] <TASK>
[…]
[ 57.333511] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x3e5/0x740
[ 57.333778] ? exc_page_fault+0x70/0x170
[ 57.334016] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x2b/0x30
[ 57.334263] ? __pfx_ocfs2_xa_block_wipe_namevalue+0x10/0x10
[ 57.334596] ? ocfs2_xa_block_wipe_namevalue+0x2a/0xc0
[ 57.334913] ocfs2_xa_remove_entry+0x23/0xc0
[ 57.335164] ocfs2_xa_set+0x704/0xcf0
[ 57.335381] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1a/0x40
[ 57.335620] ? ocfs2_inode_cache_unlock+0x16/0x20
[ 57.335915] ? trace_preempt_on+0x1e/0x70
[ 57.336153] ? start_this_handle+0x16c/0x500
[ 57.336410] ? preempt_count_sub+0x50/0x80
[ 57.336656] ? _raw_read_unlock+0x20/0x40
[ 57.336906] ? start_this_handle+0x16c/0x500
[ 57.337162] ocfs2_xattr_block_set+0xa6/0x1e0
[ 57.337424] __ocfs2_xattr_set_handle+0x1fd/0x5d0
[ 57.337706] ? ocfs2_start_trans+0x13d/0x290
[ 57.337971] ocfs2_xattr_set+0xb13/0xfb0
[ 57.338207] ? dput+0x46/0x1c0
[ 57.338393] ocfs2_xattr_trusted_set+0x28/0x30
[ 57.338665] ? ocfs2_xattr_trusted_set+0x28/0x30
[ 57.338948] __vfs_removexattr+0x92/0xc0
[ 57.339182] __vfs_removexattr_locked+0xd5/0x190
[ 57.339456] ? preempt_count_sub+0x50/0x80
[ 57.339705] vfs_removexattr+0x5f/0x100
[…]

Reproducer uses faultinject facility to fail ocfs2_xa_remove() –>
ocfs2_xa_value_truncate() with -ENOMEM.

In this case the comment mentions that we can return 0 if
ocfs2_xa_cleanup_value_truncate() is going to wipe the entry
anyway. But the following ‘rc’ check is wrong and execution flow do
‘ocfs2_xa_remove_entry(loc);’ twice:

  • 1st: in ocfs2_xa_cleanup_value_truncate();
  • 2nd: returning back to ocfs2_xa_remove() instead of going to ‘out’.

Fix this by skipping the 2nd removal of the same entry and making
syzkaller repro happy.

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