🇰🇷 한글 설명
Linux 커널 cgroup 서브시스템의 경쟁 조건 취약점으로, 작업 마이그레이션 중 cgroup 반복자가 작업을 건너뛸 수 있습니다. 이는 특정 상황에서 cgroup.procs 읽기 시 일부 프로세스가 누락되는 문제를 유발합니다.
💡 쉬운 설명
Linux에서 작업 그룹(cgroup) 관리 중 두 개의 작업이 동시에 실행될 때, 프로세스 목록을 읽는 중 일부 프로세스가 누락될 수 있습니다. 이는 매우 특수한 상황에서만 발생하는 타이밍 관련 버그입니다.
🇺🇸 원문 (English)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cgroup: fix race between task migration and iteration
When a task is migrated out of a css_set, cgroup_migrate_add_task()
first moves it from cset->tasks to cset->mg_tasks via:
list_move_tail(&task->cg_list, &cset->mg_tasks);
If a css_task_iter currently has it->task_pos pointing to this task,
css_set_move_task() calls css_task_iter_skip() to keep the iterator
valid. However, since the task has already been moved to ->mg_tasks,
the iterator is advanced relative to the mg_tasks list instead of the
original tasks list. As a result, remaining tasks on cset->tasks, as
well as tasks queued on cset->mg_tasks, can be skipped by iteration.
Fix this by calling css_set_skip_task_iters() before unlinking
task->cg_list from cset->tasks. This advances all active iterators to
the next task on cset->tasks, so iteration continues correctly even
when a task is concurrently being migrated.
This race is hard to hit in practice without instrumentation, but it
can be reproduced by artificially slowing down cgroup_procs_show().
For example, on an Android device a temporary
/sys/kernel/cgroup/cgroup_test knob can be added to inject a delay
into cgroup_procs_show(), and then:
1) Spawn three long-running tasks (PIDs 101, 102, 103).
2) Create a test cgroup and move the tasks into it.
3) Enable a large delay via /sys/kernel/cgroup/cgroup_test.
4) In one shell, read cgroup.procs from the test cgroup.
5) Within the delay window, in another shell migrate PID 102 by
writing it to a different cgroup.procs file.
Under this setup, cgroup.procs can intermittently show only PID 101
while skipping PID 103. Once the migration completes, reading the
file again shows all tasks as expected.
Note that this change does not allow removing the existing
css_set_skip_task_iters() call in css_set_move_task(). The new call
in cgroup_migrate_add_task() only handles iterators that are racing
with migration while the task is still on cset->tasks. Iterators may
also start after the task has been moved to cset->mg_tasks. If we
dropped css_set_skip_task_iters() from css_set_move_task(), such
iterators could keep task_pos pointing to a migrating task, causing
css_task_iter_advance() to malfunction on the destination css_set,
up to and including crashes or infinite loops.
The race window between migration and iteration is very small, and
css_task_iter is not on a hot path. In the worst case, when an
iterator is positioned on the first thread of the migrating process,
cgroup_migrate_add_task() may have to skip multiple tasks via
css_set_skip_task_iters(). However, this only happens when migration
and iteration actually race, so the performance impact is negligible
compared to the correctness fix provided here.
📍 영향받는 시스템
Linux kernel (cgroup 활성화된 모든 버전, 특히 최근 버전)
⚔️ 공격 벡터
로컬 공격, 동시 cgroup 작업 마이그레이션 작업 필요
🛡️ 대응 방법
Linux 커널을 최신 버전으로 업데이트
🔧 검증 코드
현재 커널 버전을 확인하여 최신 보안 패치가 적용된 커널 버전(6.x 이상)을 실행 중인지 확인합니다.
uname -r | grep -E '6\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' && echo '커널 버전 확인' || echo '버전 확인 불가'