CVE-2023-54269

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

SUNRPC: double free xprt_ctxt while still in use

When an RPC request is deferred, the rq_xprt_ctxt pointer is moved out of the svc_rqst into the svc_deferred_req. When the deferred request is revisited, the pointer is copied into the new svc_rqst - and also remains in the svc_deferred_req.

In the (rare?) case that the request is deferred a second time, the old svc_deferred_req is reused - it still has all the correct content. However in that case the rq_xprt_ctxt pointer is NOT cleared so that when xpo_release_xprt is called, the ctxt is freed (UDP) or possible added to a free list (RDMA). When the deferred request is revisited for a second time, it will reference this ctxt which may be invalid, and the free the object a second time which is likely to oops.

So change svc_defer() to always clear rq_xprt_ctxt, and assert that the value is now stored in the svc_deferred_req.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7851771789e87108a92697194105ef0c9307dc5e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0c648627322a4c7e018e5c7f837c3c03e297dbb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb8d3a2c809abd73ab0a060fe971d6b9019aa3c1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd86534872f445f54dc01e7db001e25eadf063a8