CVE-2023-54089
Our Analysis: General-Purpose
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtio_pmem: add the missing REQ_OP_WRITE for flush bio
When doing mkfs.xfs on a pmem device, the following warning was
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WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 384 at block/blk-core.c:751 submit_bio_noacct
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 PID: 384 Comm: mkfs.xfs Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7+ #154
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
RIP: 0010:submit_bio_noacct+0x340/0x520
......
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? submit_bio_noacct+0xd5/0x520
submit_bio+0x37/0x60
async_pmem_flush+0x79/0xa0
nvdimm_flush+0x17/0x40
pmem_submit_bio+0x370/0x390
__submit_bio+0xbc/0x190
submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x14d/0x370
submit_bio_noacct+0x1ef/0x520
submit_bio+0x55/0x60
submit_bio_wait+0x5a/0xc0
blkdev_issue_flush+0x44/0x60
The root cause is that submit_bio_noacct() needs bio_op() is either
WRITE or ZONE_APPEND for flush bio and async_pmem_flush() doesn't assign
REQ_OP_WRITE when allocating flush bio, so submit_bio_noacct just fail
the flush bio.
Simply fix it by adding the missing REQ_OP_WRITE for flush bio. And we
could fix the flush order issue and do flush optimization later.