CVE-2023-53832

About vulnerability

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

md/raid10: fix null-ptr-deref in raid10_sync_request

init_resync() inits mempool and sets conf->have_replacemnt at the beginning of sync, close_sync() frees the mempool when sync is completed.

After [1] recovery might be skipped and init_resync() is called but close_sync() is not. null-ptr-deref occurs with r10bio->dev[i].repl_bio.

The following is one way to reproduce the issue.

1. create a array, wait for resync to complete, mddev->recovery_cp is set to MaxSector.
2. recovery is woken and it is skipped. conf->have_replacement is set to 0 in init_resync(). close_sync() not called.
3. some io errors and rdev A is set to WantReplacement.
4. a new device is added and set to A’s replacement.
5. recovery is woken, A have replacement, but conf->have_replacemnt is

0. r10bio->dev[i].repl_bio will not be alloced and null-ptr-deref occurs.

Fix it by not calling init_resync() if recovery skipped.

[1] commit 7e83ccbecd60 (“md/raid10: Allow skipping recovery when clean arrays are assembled”)

Affected product:

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS

Affected packages:

kernel @ 4.18.0 (+2 more)

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

md/raid10: fix null-ptr-deref in raid10_sync_request

init_resync() inits mempool and sets conf->have_replacemnt at the beginning of sync, close_sync() frees the mempool when sync is completed.

After [1] recovery might be skipped and init_resync() is called but close_sync() is not. null-ptr-deref occurs with r10bio->dev[i].repl_bio.

The following is one way to reproduce the issue.

1. create a array, wait for resync to complete, mddev->recovery_cp is set to MaxSector.
2. recovery is woken and it is skipped. conf->have_replacement is set to 0 in init_resync(). close_sync() not called.
3. some io errors and rdev A is set to WantReplacement.
4. a new device is added and set to A’s replacement.
5. recovery is woken, A have replacement, but conf->have_replacemnt is

0. r10bio->dev[i].repl_bio will not be alloced and null-ptr-deref occurs.

Fix it by not calling init_resync() if recovery skipped.

[1] commit 7e83ccbecd60 (“md/raid10: Allow skipping recovery when clean arrays are assembled”)