N/A - CVE-2021-47656

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

jffs2: fix use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem

When we mount a jffs2 image, assume that the first few blocks of the image are normal and contain at least one xattr-related inode, but the next block is abnormal. As a result, an error is returned in jffs2_scan_eraseblock(). jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() is then called in jffs2_build_filesystem() and then again in jffs2_do_fill_super().

Finally we can observe the following report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881243384e0 by task mount/719

Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x115/0x16b
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
jffs2_do_fill_super+0x84f/0xc30
jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
mtd_get_sb+0x254/0x400
mtd_get_sb_by_nr+0x4f/0xd0
get_tree_mtd+0x498/0x840
jffs2_get_tree+0x25/0x30
vfs_get_tree+0x8d/0x2e0
path_mount+0x50f/0x1e50
do_mount+0x107/0x130
__se_sys_mount+0x1c5/0x2f0
__x64_sys_mount+0xc7/0x160
do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Allocated by task 719:
kasan_save_stack+0x23/0x60
__kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0x10b/0x120
kasan_slab_alloc+0x12/0x20
kmem_cache_alloc+0x1c0/0x870
jffs2_alloc_xattr_ref+0x2f/0xa0
jffs2_scan_medium.cold+0x3713/0x4794
jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0xa7/0x2253
jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30
jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
[...]

Freed by task 719:
kmem_cache_free+0xcc/0x7b0
jffs2_free_xattr_ref+0x78/0x98
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0xa1/0x6ac
jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0x5e6/0x2253
jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30
jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
[...]

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881243384b8
which belongs to the cache jffs2_xattr_ref of size 48
The buggy address is located 40 bytes inside of
48-byte region [ffff8881243384b8, ffff8881243384e8)
[...]
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The triggering of the BUG is shown in the following stack: ----------------------------------------------------------- jffs2_fill_super
jffs2_do_fill_super
jffs2_do_mount_fs
jffs2_build_filesystem
jffs2_scan_medium
jffs2_scan_eraseblock <--- ERROR
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem <--- free
jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem <--- free again -----------------------------------------------------------

An error is returned in jffs2_do_mount_fs(). If the error is returned by jffs2_sum_init(), the jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() does not need to be executed. If the error is returned by jffs2_build_filesystem(), the jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() also does not need to be executed again. So move jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() from 'out_inohash' to 'out_root' to fix this UAF problem.