CVE-2021-46972— ovl: fix leaked dentry
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2021-46972
Vulnerability Information
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Vulnerability Title
ovl: fix leaked dentry
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: fix leaked dentry Since commit 6815f479ca90 ("ovl: use only uppermetacopy state in ovl_lookup()"), overlayfs doesn't put temporary dentry when there is a metacopy error, which leads to dentry leaks when shutting down the related superblock: overlayfs: refusing to follow metacopy origin for (/file0) ... BUG: Dentry (____ptrval____){i=3f33,n=file3} still in use (1) [unmount of overlay overlay] ... WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 432 at umount_check.cold+0x107/0x14d CPU: 1 PID: 432 Comm: unmount-overlay Not tainted 5.12.0-rc5 #1 ... RIP: 0010:umount_check.cold+0x107/0x14d ... Call Trace: d_walk+0x28c/0x950 ? dentry_lru_isolate+0x2b0/0x2b0 ? __kasan_slab_free+0x12/0x20 do_one_tree+0x33/0x60 shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x78/0x1d0 generic_shutdown_super+0x70/0x440 kill_anon_super+0x3e/0x70 deactivate_locked_super+0xc4/0x160 deactivate_super+0xfa/0x140 cleanup_mnt+0x22e/0x370 __cleanup_mnt+0x1a/0x30 task_work_run+0x139/0x210 do_exit+0xb0c/0x2820 ? __kasan_check_read+0x1d/0x30 ? find_held_lock+0x35/0x160 ? lock_release+0x1b6/0x660 ? mm_update_next_owner+0xa20/0xa20 ? reacquire_held_locks+0x3f0/0x3f0 ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp4+0x22/0x30 do_group_exit+0x135/0x380 __do_sys_exit_group.isra.0+0x20/0x20 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3c/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae ... VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of overlay. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... This fix has been tested with a syzkaller reproducer.
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel 存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于当存在临时目录项时，overlayfs 不会放置临时目录项 元复制错误，导致关闭相关超级块时导致 dentry 泄漏。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
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Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
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Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Affected Products
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Same Patch Batch · Linux · 2024-02-27 · 67 CVEs total
| CVE-2021-46950 | md/raid1: properly indicate failure when ending a failed write request | |
| CVE-2021-46970 | bus: mhi: pci_generic: Remove WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag from state workqueue | |
| CVE-2021-46969 | bus: mhi: core: Fix invalid error returning in mhi_queue | |
| CVE-2021-46968 | s390/zcrypt: fix zcard and zqueue hot-unplug memleak | |
| CVE-2021-46956 | virtiofs: fix memory leak in virtio_fs_probe() | |
| CVE-2021-46955 | openvswitch: fix stack OOB read while fragmenting IPv4 packets | |
| CVE-2021-46954 | net/sched: sch_frag: fix stack OOB read while fragmenting IPv4 packets | |
| CVE-2021-46953 | ACPI: GTDT: Don't corrupt interrupt mappings on watchdow probe failure | |
| CVE-2021-46952 | NFS: fs_context: validate UDP retrans to prevent shift out-of-bounds | |
| CVE-2021-46951 | tpm: efi: Use local variable for calculating final log size | |
| CVE-2021-46957 | riscv/kprobe: fix kernel panic when invoking sys_read traced by kprobe | |
| CVE-2021-46949 | sfc: farch: fix TX queue lookup in TX flush done handling | |
| CVE-2021-46948 | sfc: farch: fix TX queue lookup in TX event handling | |
| CVE-2021-46947 | sfc: adjust efx->xdp_tx_queue_count with the real number of initialized queues | |
| CVE-2021-46945 | ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified | |
| CVE-2021-46944 | media: staging/intel-ipu3: Fix memory leak in imu_fmt | |
| CVE-2021-46943 | media: staging/intel-ipu3: Fix set_fmt error handling | |
| CVE-2021-46942 | io_uring: fix shared sqpoll cancellation hangs | |
| CVE-2021-46941 | usb: dwc3: core: Do core softreset when switch mode | |
| CVE-2021-46940 | tools/power turbostat: Fix offset overflow issue in index converting |
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