CVE-2021-46938

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

dm rq: fix double free of blk_mq_tag_set in dev remove after table load fails

When loading a device-mapper table for a request-based mapped device,
and the allocation/initialization of the blk_mq_tag_set for the device
fails, a following device remove will cause a double free.

E.g. (dmesg):
  device-mapper: core: Cannot initialize queue for request-based dm-mq mapped device
  device-mapper: ioctl: unable to set up device queue for new table.
  Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
  Failing address: 0305e098835de000 TEID: 0305e098835de803
  Fault in home space mode while using kernel ASCE.
  AS:000000025efe0007 R3:0000000000000024
  Oops: 0038 ilc:3 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: ... lots of modules ...
  Supported: Yes, External
  CPU: 0 PID: 7348 Comm: multipathd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W      X    5.3.18-53-default #1 SLE15-SP3
  Hardware name: IBM 8561 T01 7I2 (LPAR)
  Krnl PSW : 0704e00180000000 000000025e368eca (kfree+0x42/0x330)
             R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
  Krnl GPRS: 000000000000004a 000000025efe5230 c1773200d779968d 0000000000000000
             000000025e520270 000000025e8d1b40 0000000000000003 00000007aae10000
             000000025e5202a2 0000000000000001 c1773200d779968d 0305e098835de640
             00000007a8170000 000003ff80138650 000000025e5202a2 000003e00396faa8
  Krnl Code: 000000025e368eb8: c4180041e100       lgrl    %r1,25eba50b8
             000000025e368ebe: ecba06b93a55       risbg   %r11,%r10,6,185,58
            #000000025e368ec4: e3b010000008       ag      %r11,0(%r1)
            >000000025e368eca: e310b0080004       lg      %r1,8(%r11)
             000000025e368ed0: a7110001           tmll    %r1,1
             000000025e368ed4: a7740129           brc     7,25e369126
             000000025e368ed8: e320b0080004       lg      %r2,8(%r11)
             000000025e368ede: b904001b           lgr     %r1,%r11
  Call Trace:
   [<000000025e368eca>] kfree+0x42/0x330
   [<000000025e5202a2>] blk_mq_free_tag_set+0x72/0xb8
   [<000003ff801316a8>] dm_mq_cleanup_mapped_device+0x38/0x50 [dm_mod]
   [<000003ff80120082>] free_dev+0x52/0xd0 [dm_mod]
   [<000003ff801233f0>] __dm_destroy+0x150/0x1d0 [dm_mod]
   [<000003ff8012bb9a>] dev_remove+0x162/0x1c0 [dm_mod]
   [<000003ff8012a988>] ctl_ioctl+0x198/0x478 [dm_mod]
   [<000003ff8012ac8a>] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x22/0x38 [dm_mod]
   [<000000025e3b11ee>] ksys_ioctl+0xbe/0xe0
   [<000000025e3b127a>] __s390x_sys_ioctl+0x2a/0x40
   [<000000025e8c15ac>] system_call+0xd8/0x2c8
  Last Breaking-Event-Address:
   [<000000025e52029c>] blk_mq_free_tag_set+0x6c/0xb8
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops

When allocation/initialization of the blk_mq_tag_set fails in
dm_mq_init_request_queue(), it is uninitialized/freed, but the pointer
is not reset to NULL; so when dev_remove() later gets into
dm_mq_cleanup_mapped_device() it sees the pointer and tries to
uninitialize and free it again.

Fix this by setting the pointer to NULL in dm_mq_init_request_queue()
error-handling. Also set it to NULL in dm_mq_cleanup_mapped_device().
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
7.8 HIGH
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
LinuxCNA
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 1%
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
4.6.0 ≤
𝑥
< 4.9.269
linuxlinux_kernel
4.10.0 ≤
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< 4.14.233
linuxlinux_kernel
4.15.0 ≤
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< 4.19.191
linuxlinux_kernel
4.20.0 ≤
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< 5.4.118
linuxlinux_kernel
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< 5.10.36
linuxlinux_kernel
5.11.0 ≤
𝑥
< 5.11.20
linuxlinux_kernel
5.12.0 ≤
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< 5.12.3
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mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oem-5.6
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oem-6.0
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oem-6.1
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oem-6.5
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oem-6.8
noble
not-affected
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oem-osp1
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
ignored
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle
noble
not-affected
mantic
not-affected
jammy
not-affected
focal
Fixed 5.4.0-1048.52
released
bionic
pending
xenial
Fixed 4.15.0-1078.86~16.04.1
released
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.0
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
ignored
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.11
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.13
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.15
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
not-affected
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.3
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
ignored
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.4
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
pending
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.8
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-6.5
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi
noble
not-affected
mantic
not-affected
jammy
not-affected
focal
Fixed 5.4.0-1038.41
released
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi-5.4
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
pending
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi-realtime
noble
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi2
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
ignored
xenial
ignored
trusty
dne
linux-raspi2-5.3
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
ignored
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-realtime
noble
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv
noble
not-affected
mantic
not-affected
jammy
ignored
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.11
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.15
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
not-affected
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.19
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.8
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-6.5
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-6.8
noble
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-snapdragon
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
ignored
xenial
ignored
trusty
dne
linux-starfive
noble
dne
mantic
not-affected
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-starfive-5.19
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-starfive-6.2
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-starfive-6.5
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-xilinx-zynqmp
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
not-affected
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne