In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
If something was written to the buffer just before destruction, it may be possible (maybe not in a real system, but it did happen in ARCH=um with time-travel) to destroy the ringbuffer before the IRQ work ran, leading this KASAN report (or a crash without KASAN):
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a
Read of size 8 at addr 000000006d640a48 by task swapper/0
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G W O 6.3.0-rc1 #7
Stack:
60c4f20f 0c203d48 41b58ab3 60f224fc
600477fa 60f35687 60c4f20f 601273dd
00000008 6101eb00 6101eab0 615be548
Call Trace:
[<60047a58>] show_stack+0x25e/0x282
[<60c609e0>] dump_stack_lvl+0x96/0xfd
[<60c50d4c>] print_report+0x1a7/0x5a8
[<603078d3>] kasan_report+0xc1/0xe9
[<60308950>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1b/0x1d
[<60232844>] irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a
[<602328b4>] irq_work_tick+0x24/0x34
[<6017f9dc>] update_process_times+0x162/0x196
[<6019f335>] tick_sched_handle+0x1a4/0x1c3
[<6019fd9e>] tick_sched_timer+0x79/0x10c
[<601812b9>] __hrtimer_run_queues.constprop.0+0x425/0x695
[<60182913>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x16c/0x2c4
[<600486a3>] um_timer+0x164/0x183
[...]
Allocated by task 411:
save_stack_trace+0x99/0xb5
stack_trace_save+0x81/0x9b
kasan_save_stack+0x2d/0x54
kasan_set_track+0x34/0x3e
kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x28
____kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0x97
__kasan_kmalloc+0x10/0x12
__kmalloc+0xb2/0xe8
load_elf_phdrs+0xee/0x182
[...]
The buggy address belongs to the object at 000000006d640800
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 584 bytes inside of
freed 1024-byte region [000000006d640800, 000000006d640c00)
Add the appropriate irqworksync() so the work finishes before the buffers are destroyed.
Prior to the commit in the Fixes tag below, there was only a single global IRQ work, so this issue didn't exist.
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