CVE-2022-48869
Published: Aug 21, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: gadgetfs: Fix race between mounting and unmounting The syzbot fuzzer and Gerald Lee have identified a use-after-free bug in the gadgetfs driver, involving processes concurrently mounting and unmounting the gadgetfs filesystem. In particular, gadgetfs_fill_super() can race with gadgetfs_kill_sb(), causing the latter to deallocate the_device while the former is using it. The output from KASAN says, in part: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:102 [inline] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:176 [inline] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:272 [inline] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:315 [inline] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:333 [inline] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in put_dev drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:159 [inline] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in gadgetfs_kill_sb+0x33/0x100 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:2086 Write of size 4 at addr ffff8880276d7840 by task syz-executor126/18689 CPU: 0 PID: 18689 Comm: syz-executor126 Not tainted 6.1.0-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022 Call Trace: <TASK> ... atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:176 [inline] __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:272 [inline] __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:315 [inline] refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:333 [inline] put_dev drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:159 [inline] gadgetfs_kill_sb+0x33/0x100 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:2086 deactivate_locked_super+0xa7/0xf0 fs/super.c:332 vfs_get_super fs/super.c:1190 [inline] get_tree_single+0xd0/0x160 fs/super.c:1207 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1531 vfs_fsconfig_locked fs/fsopen.c:232 [inline] The simplest solution is to ensure that gadgetfs_fill_super() and gadgetfs_kill_sb() are serialized by making them both acquire a new mutex.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected e5d82a7360d124ae1a38c2a5eac92ba49b125191 - < 9a39f4626b361ee7aa10fd990401c37ec3b466aeaffected e5d82a7360d124ae1a38c2a5eac92ba49b125191 - < 856e4b5e53f21edbd15d275dde62228dd94fb2b4affected e5d82a7360d124ae1a38c2a5eac92ba49b125191 - < a2e075f40122d8daf587db126c562a67abd69cf9affected e5d82a7360d124ae1a38c2a5eac92ba49b125191 - < 616fd34d017000ecf9097368b13d8a266f4920b3affected e5d82a7360d124ae1a38c2a5eac92ba49b125191 - < d18dcfe9860e842f394e37ba01ca9440ab2178f4 |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.3unaffected 0 - < 5.3unaffected 5.4.230 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.165 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.90 - <= 5.15.*+2 more versions |
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