[PATCH 5.10/5.15] dm cache: fix flushing uninitialized delayed_work on cache_ctr error

From: Ilia Gavrilov
Date: Thu Apr 03 2025 - 10:41:53 EST


From: Ming-Hung Tsai <mtsai@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 135496c208ba26fd68cdef10b64ed7a91ac9a7ff upstream.

An unexpected WARN_ON from flush_work() may occur when cache creation
fails, caused by destroying the uninitialized delayed_work waker in the
error path of cache_create(). For example, the warning appears on the
superblock checksum error.

Reproduce steps:

dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0"
dmsetup create cdata --table "0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192"
dmsetup create corig --table "0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144"
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct
dmsetup create cache --table "0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \
/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0"

Kernel logs:

(snip)
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 84 at kernel/workqueue.c:4178 __flush_work+0x5d4/0x890

Fix by pulling out the cancel_delayed_work_sync() from the constructor's
error path. This patch doesn't affect the use-after-free fix for
concurrent dm_resume and dm_destroy (commit 6a459d8edbdb ("dm cache: Fix
UAF in destroy()")) as cache_dtr is not changed.

Signed-off-by: Ming-Hung Tsai <mtsai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 6a459d8edbdb ("dm cache: Fix UAF in destroy()")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ilia Gavrilov <Ilia.Gavrilov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Backport fix for CVE-2024-50280
drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c
index 63eac25ec881..8a03357f8c93 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c
@@ -1960,16 +1960,13 @@ static void check_migrations(struct work_struct *ws)
* This function gets called on the error paths of the constructor, so we
* have to cope with a partially initialised struct.
*/
-static void destroy(struct cache *cache)
+static void __destroy(struct cache *cache)
{
- unsigned i;
-
mempool_exit(&cache->migration_pool);

if (cache->prison)
dm_bio_prison_destroy_v2(cache->prison);

- cancel_delayed_work_sync(&cache->waker);
if (cache->wq)
destroy_workqueue(cache->wq);

@@ -1997,13 +1994,22 @@ static void destroy(struct cache *cache)
if (cache->policy)
dm_cache_policy_destroy(cache->policy);

+ bioset_exit(&cache->bs);
+
+ kfree(cache);
+}
+
+static void destroy(struct cache *cache)
+{
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ cancel_delayed_work_sync(&cache->waker);
+
for (i = 0; i < cache->nr_ctr_args ; i++)
kfree(cache->ctr_args[i]);
kfree(cache->ctr_args);

- bioset_exit(&cache->bs);
-
- kfree(cache);
+ __destroy(cache);
}

static void cache_dtr(struct dm_target *ti)
@@ -2616,7 +2622,7 @@ static int cache_create(struct cache_args *ca, struct cache **result)
*result = cache;
return 0;
bad:
- destroy(cache);
+ __destroy(cache);
return r;
}

@@ -2667,7 +2673,7 @@ static int cache_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv)

r = copy_ctr_args(cache, argc - 3, (const char **)argv + 3);
if (r) {
- destroy(cache);
+ __destroy(cache);
goto out;
}

--
2.39.5