vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2021-47256): linux vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 21, 2024
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Sep 5, 2025

Description

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

mm/memory-failure: make sure wait for page writeback in memory_failure

Our syzkaller trigger the "BUG_ON(!list_empty(&inode->i_wb_list))" in
clear_inode:

kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:519!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
Process syz-executor.0 (pid: 249, stack limit = 0x00000000a12409d7)
CPU: 1 PID: 249 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 4.19.95
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO)
pc : clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8
lr : clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8
Call trace:
clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8
ext4_clear_inode+0x38/0xe8
ext4_free_inode+0x130/0xc68
ext4_evict_inode+0xb20/0xcb8
evict+0x1a8/0x3c0
iput+0x344/0x460
do_unlinkat+0x260/0x410
__arm64_sys_unlinkat+0x6c/0xc0
el0_svc_common+0xdc/0x3b0
el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160
el0_svc+0x10/0x218
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

A crash dump of this problem show that someone called __munlock_pagevec
to clear page LRU without lock_page: do_mmap -> mmap_region -> do_munmap
-> munlock_vma_pages_range -> __munlock_pagevec.

As a result memory_failure will call identify_page_state without
wait_on_page_writeback. And after truncate_error_page clear the mapping
of this page. end_page_writeback won't call sb_clear_inode_writeback to
clear inode->i_wb_list. That will trigger BUG_ON in clear_inode!

Fix it by checking PageWriteback too to help determine should we skip
wait_on_page_writeback.

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