CVE-2022-49179

block, bfq: don't move oom_bfqq

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: February 26, 2025 at 01:55 AM UTC
Updated: August 13, 2026 at 12:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block, bfq: don't move oom_bfqq Our test report a UAF: [ 2073.019181] ================================================================== [ 2073.019188] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __bfq_put_async_bfqq+0xa0/0x168 [ 2073.019191] Write of size 8 at addr ffff8000ccf64128 by task rmmod/72584 [ 2073.019192] [ 2073.019196] CPU: 0 PID: 72584 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Not tainted 4.19.90-yk #5 [ 2073.019198] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 [ 2073.019200] Call trace: [ 2073.019203] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x310 [ 2073.019206] show_stack+0x28/0x38 [ 2073.019210] dump_stack+0xec/0x15c [ 2073.019216] print_address_description+0x68/0x2d0 [ 2073.019220] kasan_report+0x238/0x2f0 [ 2073.019224] __asan_store8+0x88/0xb0 [ 2073.019229] __bfq_put_async_bfqq+0xa0/0x168 [ 2073.019233] bfq_put_async_queues+0xbc/0x208 [ 2073.019236] bfq_pd_offline+0x178/0x238 [ 2073.019240] blkcg_deactivate_policy+0x1f0/0x420 [ 2073.019244] bfq_exit_queue+0x128/0x178 [ 2073.019249] blk_mq_exit_sched+0x12c/0x160 [ 2073.019252] elevator_exit+0xc8/0xd0 [ 2073.019256] blk_exit_queue+0x50/0x88 [ 2073.019259] blk_cleanup_queue+0x228/0x3d8 [ 2073.019267] null_del_dev+0xfc/0x1e0 [null_blk] [ 2073.019274] null_exit+0x90/0x114 [null_blk] [ 2073.019278] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x358/0x5a0 [ 2073.019282] el0_svc_common+0xc8/0x320 [ 2073.019287] el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160 [ 2073.019290] el0_svc+0x10/0x218 [ 2073.019291] [ 2073.019294] Allocated by task 14163: [ 2073.019301] kasan_kmalloc+0xe0/0x190 [ 2073.019305] kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0x1cc/0x418 [ 2073.019308] bfq_pd_alloc+0x54/0x118 [ 2073.019313] blkcg_activate_policy+0x250/0x460 [ 2073.019317] bfq_create_group_hierarchy+0x38/0x110 [ 2073.019321] bfq_init_queue+0x6d0/0x948 [ 2073.019325] blk_mq_init_sched+0x1d8/0x390 [ 2073.019330] elevator_switch_mq+0x88/0x170 [ 2073.019334] elevator_switch+0x140/0x270 [ 2073.019338] elv_iosched_store+0x1a4/0x2a0 [ 2073.019342] queue_attr_store+0x90/0xe0 [ 2073.019348] sysfs_kf_write+0xa8/0xe8 [ 2073.019351] kernfs_fop_write+0x1f8/0x378 [ 2073.019359] __vfs_write+0xe0/0x360 [ 2073.019363] vfs_write+0xf0/0x270 [ 2073.019367] ksys_write+0xdc/0x1b8 [ 2073.019371] __arm64_sys_write+0x50/0x60 [ 2073.019375] el0_svc_common+0xc8/0x320 [ 2073.019380] el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160 [ 2073.019383] el0_svc+0x10/0x218 [ 2073.019385] [ 2073.019387] Freed by task 72584: [ 2073.019391] __kasan_slab_free+0x120/0x228 [ 2073.019394] kasan_slab_free+0x10/0x18 [ 2073.019397] kfree+0x94/0x368 [ 2073.019400] bfqg_put+0x64/0xb0 [ 2073.019404] bfqg_and_blkg_put+0x90/0xb0 [ 2073.019408] bfq_put_queue+0x220/0x228 [ 2073.019413] __bfq_put_async_bfqq+0x98/0x168 [ 2073.019416] bfq_put_async_queues+0xbc/0x208 [ 2073.019420] bfq_pd_offline+0x178/0x238 [ 2073.019424] blkcg_deactivate_policy+0x1f0/0x420 [ 2073.019429] bfq_exit_queue+0x128/0x178 [ 2073.019433] blk_mq_exit_sched+0x12c/0x160 [ 2073.019437] elevator_exit+0xc8/0xd0 [ 2073.019440] blk_exit_queue+0x50/0x88 [ 2073.019443] blk_cleanup_queue+0x228/0x3d8 [ 2073.019451] null_del_dev+0xfc/0x1e0 [null_blk] [ 2073.019459] null_exit+0x90/0x114 [null_blk] [ 2073.019462] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x358/0x5a0 [ 2073.019467] el0_svc_common+0xc8/0x320 [ 2073.019471] el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160 [ 2073.019474] el0_svc+0x10/0x218 [ 2073.019475] [ 2073.019479] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8000ccf63f00 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1024 of size 1024 [ 2073.019484] The buggy address is located 552 bytes inside of 1024-byte region [ffff8000ccf63f00, ffff8000ccf64300) [ 2073.019486] The buggy address belongs to the page: [ 2073.019492] page:ffff7e000333d800 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff8000c0003a00 index:0x0 compound_mapcount: 0 [ 2073.020123] flags: 0x7ffff0000008100(slab|head) [ 2073.020403] raw: 07ffff0000008100 ffff7e0003334c08 ffff7e00001f5a08 ffff8000c0003a00 [ 2073.020409] ra ---truncated---

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 5.4.1894.16 ≤ v < 5.10.1104.16 ≤ v < 5.15.334.16 ≤ v < 5.16.194.16 ≤ v < 5.17.24.16 ≤ v < 5.184.16 ≤ v < 5.4.1895.11 ≤ v < 5.15.335.16 ≤ v < 5.16.195.17 ≤ v < 5.17.25.5 ≤ v < 5.10.1100d52af590552473666da5b6111e7182d6cd23f924.16
Vendor states this is fixed in 7507ead1e9d42957c2340f2c4a0e9d00034e3366 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8410f70977734f21b8ed45c37e925d311dfda2e7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 87fdfe8589d43e471dffb4c60f75eeb6f37afc4c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8f34dea99cd7761156a146a5258a67d045d862f7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c01fced8d38fbccc82787065229578006f28e020 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c4f5a678add58a8a0e7ee5e038496b376ea6d205 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.16 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.110 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.33 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.16.19 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.17.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4.189 (unaffected)

References (6)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7507ead1e9d42957c2340f2c4a0e9d00034e3366
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8410f70977734f21b8ed45c37e925d311dfda2e7
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87fdfe8589d43e471dffb4c60f75eeb6f37afc4c
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f34dea99cd7761156a146a5258a67d045d862f7
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c01fced8d38fbccc82787065229578006f28e020
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4f5a678add58a8a0e7ee5e038496b376ea6d205

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-416

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