CVE-2021-46939
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v2023.03.01There is a 0.0% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block
It was reported that a fix to the ring buffer recursion detection would
cause a hung machine when performing suspend / resume testing. The
following backtrace was extracted from debugging that case:
Call Trace:
trace_clock_global+0x91/0xa0
__rb_reserve_next+0x237/0x460
ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0
trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x10/0x50
__trace_graph_return+0x1f/0x80
trace_graph_return+0xb7/0xf0
? trace_clock_global+0x91/0xa0
ftrace_return_to_handler+0x8b/0xf0
? pv_hash+0xa0/0xa0
return_to_handler+0x15/0x30
? ftrace_graph_caller+0xa0/0xa0
? trace_clock_global+0x91/0xa0
? __rb_reserve_next+0x237/0x460
? ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0
? trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve+0x3c/0x120
? trace_event_buffer_reserve+0x6b/0xc0
? trace_event_raw_event_device_pm_callback_start+0x125/0x2d0
? dpm_run_callback+0x3b/0xc0
? pm_ops_is_empty+0x50/0x50
? platform_get_irq_byname_optional+0x90/0x90
? trace_device_pm_callback_start+0x82/0xd0
? dpm_run_callback+0x49/0xc0
With the following RIP:
RIP: 0010:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x69/0x200
Since the fix to the recursion detection would allow a single recursion to
happen while tracing, this lead to the trace_clock_global() taking a spin
lock and then trying to take it again:
ring_buffer_lock_reserve() {
trace_clock_global() {
arch_spin_lock() {
queued_spin_lock_slowpath() {
/* lock taken */
(something else gets traced by function graph tracer)
ring_buffer_lock_reserve() {
trace_clock_global() {
arch_spin_lock() {
queued_spin_lock_slowpath() {
/* DEAD LOCK! */
Tracing should *never* block, as it can lead to strange lockups like the
above.
Restructure the trace_clock_global() code to instead of simply taking a
lock to update the recorded "prev_time" simply use it, as two events
happening on two different CPUs that calls this at the same time, really
doesn't matter which one goes first. Use a trylock to grab the lock for
updating the prev_time, and if it fails, simply try again the next time.
If it failed to be taken, that means something else is already updating
it.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212761
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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: February 27, 2024, Modified: April 10, 2024