"value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbrd: defer automatic disk creation until module initialization succeeds\n\nMy colleague Wupeng found the following problems during fault injection:\n\nBUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff809d073\nPGD 6e648067 P4D 123ec8067 PUD 123ec4067 PMD 100e38067 PTE 0\nOops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\nCPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 755 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3+ #17\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS\n1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:__asan_load8+0x4c/0xa0\n...\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n blkdev_put_whole+0x41/0x70\n bdev_release+0x1a3/0x250\n blkdev_release+0x11/0x20\n __fput+0x1d7/0x4a0\n task_work_run+0xfc/0x180\n syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1de/0x1f0\n do_syscall_64+0x6b/0x170\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nloop_init() is calling loop_add() after __register_blkdev() succeeds and\nis ignoring disk_add() failure from loop_add(), for loop_add() failure\nis not fatal and successfully created disks are already visible to\nbdev_open().\n\nbrd_init() is currently calling brd_alloc() before __register_blkdev()\nsucceeds and is releasing successfully created disks when brd_init()\nreturns an error. This can cause UAF for the latter two case:\n\ncase 1:\n T1:\nmodprobe brd\n brd_init\n brd_alloc(0) // success\n add_disk\n disk_scan_partitions\n bdev_file_open_by_dev // alloc file\n fput // won't free until back to userspace\n brd_alloc(1) // failed since mem alloc error inject\n // error path for modprobe will release code segment\n // back to userspace\n __fput\n blkdev_release\n bdev_release\n blkdev_put_whole\n bdev->bd_disk->fops->release // fops is freed now, UAF!\n\ncase 2:\n T1: T2:\nmodprobe brd\n brd_init\n brd_alloc(0) // success\n open(/dev/ram0)\n brd_alloc(1) // fail\n // error path for modprobe\n\n close(/dev/ram0)\n ...\n /* UAF! */\n bdev->bd_disk->fops->release\n\nFix this problem by following what loop_init() does. Besides,\nreintroduce brd_devices_mutex to help serialize modifications to\nbrd_list."