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      <title>CVE-2022-50563 — dm thin: Fix UAF in run_timer_softirq()</title>
      <link>https://db.gcve.eu/vuln/cve-2022-50563</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;dm thin: Fix UAF in run_timer_softirq()&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When dm_resume() and dm_destroy() are concurrent, it will
lead to UAF, as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __run_timers+0x173/0x710
 Write of size 8 at addr ffff88816d9490f0 by task swapper/0/0
&amp;lt;snip&amp;gt;
 Call Trace:
  &amp;lt;IRQ&amp;gt;
  dump_stack_lvl+0x73/0x9f
  print_report.cold+0x132/0xaa2
  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xcd/0x160
  __run_timers+0x173/0x710
  kasan_report+0xad/0x110
  __run_timers+0x173/0x710
  __asan_store8+0x9c/0x140
  __run_timers+0x173/0x710
  call_timer_fn+0x310/0x310
  pvclock_clocksource_read+0xfa/0x250
  kvm_clock_read+0x2c/0x70
  kvm_clock_get_cycles+0xd/0x20
  ktime_get+0x5c/0x110
  lapic_next_event+0x38/0x50
  clockevents_program_event+0xf1/0x1e0
  run_timer_softirq+0x49/0x90
  __do_softirq+0x16e/0x62c
  __irq_exit_rcu+0x1fa/0x270
  irq_exit_rcu+0x12/0x20
  sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8e/0xc0&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of the concurrency UAF can be shown as below:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;use                                  free
do_resume                           |
  __find_device_hash_cell           |
    dm_get                          |
      atomic_inc(&amp;amp;md-&amp;gt;holders)      |
                                    | dm_destroy
                                    |   __dm_destroy
                                    |     if (!dm_suspended_md(md))
                                    |     atomic_read(&amp;amp;md-&amp;gt;holders)
                                    |     msleep(1)
  dm_resume…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;dm thin: Fix UAF in run_timer_softirq()&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When dm_resume() and dm_destroy() are concurrent, it will
lead to UAF, as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __run_timers+0x173/0x710
 Write of size 8 at addr ffff88816d9490f0 by task swapper/0/0
&amp;lt;snip&amp;gt;
 Call Trace:
  &amp;lt;IRQ&amp;gt;
  dump_stack_lvl+0x73/0x9f
  print_report.cold+0x132/0xaa2
  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xcd/0x160
  __run_timers+0x173/0x710
  kasan_report+0xad/0x110
  __run_timers+0x173/0x710
  __asan_store8+0x9c/0x140
  __run_timers+0x173/0x710
  call_timer_fn+0x310/0x310
  pvclock_clocksource_read+0xfa/0x250
  kvm_clock_read+0x2c/0x70
  kvm_clock_get_cycles+0xd/0x20
  ktime_get+0x5c/0x110
  lapic_next_event+0x38/0x50
  clockevents_program_event+0xf1/0x1e0
  run_timer_softirq+0x49/0x90
  __do_softirq+0x16e/0x62c
  __irq_exit_rcu+0x1fa/0x270
  irq_exit_rcu+0x12/0x20
  sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8e/0xc0&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of the concurrency UAF can be shown as below:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;use                                  free
do_resume                           |
  __find_device_hash_cell           |
    dm_get                          |
      atomic_inc(&amp;amp;md-&amp;gt;holders)      |
                                    | dm_destroy
                                    |   __dm_destroy
                                    |     if (!dm_suspended_md(md))
                                    |     atomic_read(&amp;amp;md-&amp;gt;holders)
                                    |     msleep(1)
  dm_resume…&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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