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      <title>CVE-2023-53445 — net: qrtr: Fix a refcount bug in qrtr_recvmsg()</title>
      <link>https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2023-53445</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;net: qrtr: Fix a refcount bug in qrtr_recvmsg()&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Syzbot reported a bug as following:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
...
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x17c/0x1f0 lib/refcount.c:25
...
Call Trace:
 &amp;lt;TASK&amp;gt;
 __refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:199 [inline]
 __refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:250 [inline]
 refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:267 [inline]
 kref_get include/linux/kref.h:45 [inline]
 qrtr_node_acquire net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:202 [inline]
 qrtr_node_lookup net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:398 [inline]
 qrtr_send_resume_tx net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:1003 [inline]
 qrtr_recvmsg+0x85f/0x990 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:1070
 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1017 [inline]
 sock_recvmsg+0xe2/0x160 net/socket.c:1038
 qrtr_ns_worker+0x170/0x1700 net/qrtr/ns.c:688
 process_one_work+0x991/0x15c0 kernel/workqueue.c:2390
 worker_thread+0x669/0x1090 kernel/workqueue.c:2537&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It occurs in the concurrent scenario of qrtr_recvmsg() and
qrtr_endpoint_unregister() as following:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;cpu0					cpu1
qrtr_recvmsg				qrtr_endpoint_unregister
qrtr_send_resume_tx			qrtr_node_release
qrtr_node_lookup			mutex_lock(&amp;amp;qrtr_node_lock)
spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;amp;qrtr_nodes_lock, )	refcount_dec_and_test(&amp;amp;node-&amp;gt;ref) [node-&amp;gt;ref == 0]
radix_tree_lookup [node != NULL]	__qrtr_node_release
qrtr_node_acquire			spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;amp;qrtr_nodes_lock, )
kref_get(&amp;amp;node-&amp;gt;ref) [WARNING]		...
					mutex_unlock(&amp;amp;qrtr_node_lock)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Use qrtr_node_lock to protect qrtr_node_l…&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;net: qrtr: Fix a refcount bug in qrtr_recvmsg()&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Syzbot reported a bug as following:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
...
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x17c/0x1f0 lib/refcount.c:25
...
Call Trace:
 &amp;lt;TASK&amp;gt;
 __refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:199 [inline]
 __refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:250 [inline]
 refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:267 [inline]
 kref_get include/linux/kref.h:45 [inline]
 qrtr_node_acquire net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:202 [inline]
 qrtr_node_lookup net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:398 [inline]
 qrtr_send_resume_tx net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:1003 [inline]
 qrtr_recvmsg+0x85f/0x990 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:1070
 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1017 [inline]
 sock_recvmsg+0xe2/0x160 net/socket.c:1038
 qrtr_ns_worker+0x170/0x1700 net/qrtr/ns.c:688
 process_one_work+0x991/0x15c0 kernel/workqueue.c:2390
 worker_thread+0x669/0x1090 kernel/workqueue.c:2537&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It occurs in the concurrent scenario of qrtr_recvmsg() and
qrtr_endpoint_unregister() as following:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;cpu0					cpu1
qrtr_recvmsg				qrtr_endpoint_unregister
qrtr_send_resume_tx			qrtr_node_release
qrtr_node_lookup			mutex_lock(&amp;amp;qrtr_node_lock)
spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;amp;qrtr_nodes_lock, )	refcount_dec_and_test(&amp;amp;node-&amp;gt;ref) [node-&amp;gt;ref == 0]
radix_tree_lookup [node != NULL]	__qrtr_node_release
qrtr_node_acquire			spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;amp;qrtr_nodes_lock, )
kref_get(&amp;amp;node-&amp;gt;ref) [WARNING]		...
					mutex_unlock(&amp;amp;qrtr_node_lock)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Use qrtr_node_lock to protect qrtr_node_l…&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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