vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49379): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
6 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C) | 2025-02-26 | 2025-03-19 | 2025-03-21 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
driver core: Fix wait_for_device_probe() & deferred_probe_timeout interaction
Mounting NFS rootfs was timing out when deferred_probe_timeout was
non-zero [1]. This was because ip_auto_config() initcall times out
waiting for the network interfaces to show up when
deferred_probe_timeout was non-zero. While ip_auto_config() calls
wait_for_device_probe() to make sure any currently running deferred
probe work or asynchronous probe finishes, that wasn't sufficient to
account for devices being deferred until deferred_probe_timeout.
Commit 35a672363ab3 ("driver core: Ensure wait_for_device_probe() waits
until the deferred_probe_timeout fires") tried to fix that by making
sure wait_for_device_probe() waits for deferred_probe_timeout to expire
before returning.
However, if wait_for_device_probe() is called from the kernel_init()
context:
- Before deferred_probe_initcall() [2], it causes the boot process to
hang due to a deadlock.
- After deferred_probe_initcall() [3], it blocks kernel_init() from
continuing till deferred_probe_timeout expires and beats the point of
deferred_probe_timeout that's trying to wait for userspace to load
modules.
Neither of this is good. So revert the changes to
wait_for_device_probe().
[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/TYAPR01MB45443DF63B9EF29054F7C41FD8C60@TYAPR01MB4544.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com/
[2] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
[3] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2022-49379
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-49379
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/5ee76c256e928455212ab759c51d198fedbe7523
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29357883a89193863f3cc6a2c5e0b42ceb022761
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ad6af07efcca85369c21e4897b3020cff2c170b
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/528229474e1cbb1b3451cb713d94aecb5f6ee264
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ee76c256e928455212ab759c51d198fedbe7523
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71cbce75031aed26c72c2dc8a83111d181685f1b
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49379

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