Linux: memstick: rtsx_usb_ms: complete requests after eject instead of dropping them
What fixes it
- 5b599e28aeb3684772aef64f46cc6f25f4c67128LinuxCVE List
- 5616da0f92339328fa1472876df51555e15ad340LinuxCVE List
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
memstick: rtsx_usb_ms: complete requests after eject instead of dropping them
memstick_check() can pass its host->removing check just before rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove() sets eject/removing. Its next request is then silently dropped: rtsx_usb_ms_request() skips schedule_work() once eject is set, and drv_remove's cancel_work_sync() can also cancel a queued handle_req before it picks the request up. Nobody completes card->mrq_complete.
Once memstick core waits for requests without a timeout ("memstick: core: wait for request completion before freeing card"), this hangs removal: memstick_check() never returns and memstick_remove_host() blocks in flush_workqueue():
INFO: task kworker/u10:3:65 blocked for more than 20 seconds. Workqueue: kmemstick memstick_check __wait_for_common memstick_check
INFO: task kworker/1:1:33 blocked for more than 20 seconds. Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event __flush_workqueue memstick_remove_host rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove
Never drop a request. rtsx_usb_ms_request() always schedules handle_req, and handle_req fails requests with -ENOMEDIUM once eject is set, without touching the device. drv_remove flushes handle_req instead of cancelling it, and cancels it only after memstick_remove_host(), when no new request can arrive, so it cannot run on a freed host.
The host_mutex drain in drv_remove is removed: handle_req always leaves host->req NULL when it finishes, so the drain never had anything to do, and it would now race with handle_req.
Text from CVE List
Affected versions 12
- Linuxaffected: 99451dceeb5fdd789f0a2eeb3ee029e80d2ccc40 before f2c181e1d58e911804e14543b2f1cc6b23a0d4d6CVE List
- Linuxaffected: 99451dceeb5fdd789f0a2eeb3ee029e80d2ccc40 before 5b599e28aeb3684772aef64f46cc6f25f4c67128CVE List
- Linuxaffected: 99451dceeb5fdd789f0a2eeb3ee029e80d2ccc40 before d7e811c3a49cd5cff529c157df886719e09370ecCVE List
- Linuxaffected: 99451dceeb5fdd789f0a2eeb3ee029e80d2ccc40 before 5616da0f92339328fa1472876df51555e15ad340CVE List
- Linuxaffected: 99451dceeb5fdd789f0a2eeb3ee029e80d2ccc40 before c96ca94425b076dc398d929366e378d1e22ec794CVE List
- Linuxaffected: 3.16CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: all versions before 3.16CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 6.6.160 through 6.6.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 6.12.113 through 6.12.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 6.18.57 through 6.18.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 7.2.11 through 7.2.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List
References 5
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2c181e1d58e911804e14543b2f1cc6b23a0d4d6Referencevia CVE List
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b599e28aeb3684772aef64f46cc6f25f4c67128Referencevia CVE List
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7e811c3a49cd5cff529c157df886719e09370ecReferencevia CVE List
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5616da0f92339328fa1472876df51555e15ad340Referencevia CVE List
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c96ca94425b076dc398d929366e378d1e22ec794Referencevia CVE List