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Message-ID: <20120223181100.GO2608@dhcp-25-225.brq.redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:11:01 +0100
From: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE request -- kernel: block: CLONE_IO io_context refcounting issues
With CLONE_IO, copy_io() increments both ioc->refcount and
ioc->nr_tasks. However exit_io_context() only decrements
ioc->refcount if ioc->nr_tasks reaches 0.
With CLONE_IO, parent's io_context->nr_tasks is incremented, but never
decremented whenever copy_process() fails afterwards, which prevents
exit_io_context() from calling IO schedulers exit functions.
An unprivileged local user could use these flaws cause denial of
service.
Upstream fixes:
61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9
b69f2292063d2caf37ca9aec7d63ded203701bf3
References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796829
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/922519
Looks like it got fixed in Linux kernel 2.6.33(-rc1).
Thanks,
--
Petr Matousek / Red Hat Security Response Team
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