Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfs: Fix KMSAN warning in decode_getfattr_attrs()
Fix the following KMSAN warning:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7651 Comm: cp Tainted: G B Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
===================================================== BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in decode_getfattr_attrs+0x2d6d/0x2f90 decode_getfattr_attrs+0x2d6d/0x2f90 decode_getfattr_generic+0x806/0xb00 nfs4_xdr_dec_getattr+0x1de/0x240 rpcauth_unwrap_resp_decode+0xab/0x100 rpcauth_unwrap_resp+0x95/0xc0 call_decode+0x4ff/0xb50 __rpc_execute+0x57b/0x19d0 rpc_execute+0x368/0x5e0 rpc_run_task+0xcfe/0xee0 nfs4_proc_getattr+0x5b5/0x990 __nfs_revalidate_inode+0x477/0xd00 nfs_access_get_cached+0x1021/0x1cc0 nfs_do_access+0x9f/0xae0 nfs_permission+0x1e4/0x8c0 inode_permission+0x356/0x6c0 link_path_walk+0x958/0x1330 path_lookupat+0xce/0x6b0 filename_lookup+0x23e/0x770 vfs_statx+0xe7/0x970 vfs_fstatat+0x1f2/0x2c0 __se_sys_newfstatat+0x67/0x880 __x64_sys_newfstatat+0xbd/0x120 x64_sys_call+0x1826/0x3cf0 do_syscall_64+0xd0/0x1b0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
The KMSAN warning is triggered in decode_getfattr_attrs(), when calling decode_attr_mdsthreshold(). It appears that fattr->mdsthreshold is not initialized.
Fix the issue by initializing fattr->mdsthreshold to NULL in nfs_fattr_init().
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 5.14.0-11 (+17 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU | Released |
17 kernels
|
| Amazon Linux 2023 | Planned | — |
| Amazon Linux 2 5.10 | Will Not Fix | — |
| Debian 11 | Planned | — |
| Debian 11 cloud | Planned | — |
| Debian 12 | Planned | — |
| Oracle Linux 7 UEK 6 | Released |
112 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 8 UEK 6 | Released |
116 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 8 UEK 7 | Released |
53 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 | Released |
53 kernels
|
| Proxmox VE 7 5.15 | Released |
47 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 AWS ESM | Will Not Fix | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 AWS HWE ESM | Will Not Fix | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 Azure ESM | Will Not Fix | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM | Will Not Fix | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 GCP ESM | Will Not Fix | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 HWE ESM | Will Not Fix | — |
| Ubuntu 18.04 | Will Not Fix | — |
| Ubuntu 18.04 AWS Focal | Will Not Fix | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 HWE AWS | Released |
52 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 HWE Azure | Released |
34 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Released |
67 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 AWS | Released |
58 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 Azure | Released |
54 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Released |
20 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 24.04 AWS | Ready For Release | — |