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CVE-2024-40935

cachefiles: flush all requests after setting CACHEFILES_DEAD

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Descriptions

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

cachefiles: flush all requests after setting CACHEFILES_DEAD

In ondemand mode, when the daemon is processing an open request, if the
kernel flags the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, the cachefiles_daemon_write()
will always return -EIO, so the daemon can't pass the copen to the kernel.
Then the kernel process that is waiting for the copen triggers a hung_task.

Since the DEAD state is irreversible, it can only be exited by closing
/dev/cachefiles. Therefore, after calling cachefiles_io_error() to mark
the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, if in ondemand mode, flush all requests to
avoid the above hungtask. We may still be able to read some of the cached
data before closing the fd of /dev/cachefiles.

Note that this relies on the patch that adds reference counting to the req,
otherwise it may UAF.

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Timeline
  • 2024-07-12 CVE Reserved
  • 2024-07-12 CVE Published
  • 2024-07-13 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-09-11 CVE Updated
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  • ---------- KEV Due Date
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Linux
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>= 5.19 < 6.1.95
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Linux
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>= 5.19 < 6.6.35
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 5.19 < 6.9.6
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Linux
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>= 5.19 < 6.10
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