🇰🇷 한글 설명
Linux 커널의 IB/isert 모듈에서 로그인 응답이 세션 등록 전에 전송되어 발생하는 취약점입니다. 공격자가 로그인 직후 SCSI 명령을 보내면 세션 정보가 아직 초기화되지 않은 상태에서 NULL 포인터 참조가 발생하여 커널 패닉(Oops)을 유발할 수 있습니다.
💡 쉬운 설명
컴퓨터가 로그인을 완료했다고 너무 빨리 알려주는 바람에, 준비가 덜 된 상태에서 명령을 받으려다 시스템이 멈추는 문제입니다. 이로 인해 서버의 운영체제가 갑자기 꺼지거나 오류가 발생할 수 있습니다.
🇺🇸 원문 (English)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
IB/isert: delay the final Login Response until the session is registered
isert_put_login_tx() puts the final Login Response on the wire before
__transport_register_session(), which iscsi_post_login_handler() reaches
only after iscsi_target_do_login() returns. An initiator that issues a
SCSI command as soon as it sees that response can have it executed against
an se_session whose se_tpg is still NULL, and the ib-comp-wq worker oopses
on the NULL dereference.
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000f: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000078-0x000000000000007f]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 178 Comm: kworker/0:1H Not tainted 7.2.0-rc5-V2CTL-gf5098b6bae76 #10 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Workqueue: ib-comp-wq ib_cq_poll_work
RIP: 0010:target_submit+0xbe/0x390
Code: fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 89 02 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4d 8b 64 24 18 49 8d 7c 24 78 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 5a 02 00 00 48 8d 7b 78 4d 8b 6c 24 78 48 b8 00
RSP: 0018:ffff8881058cfa78 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88810c78c6f0 RCX: ffffffff964bb363
RDX: 000000000000000f RSI: 00000000fffffe00 RDI: 0000000000000078
RBP: 1ffff11020b19f52 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed1020b19f52
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffff88810596c000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff88810c61b000 R14: ffff88810c6a3400 R15: ffff88810c61b044
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881822b2000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f1f1b83c000 CR3: 000000006fe72001 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_bh+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_target_submit+0x10/0x10
? mutex_lock+0x81/0xe0
? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10
? iscsit_execute_cmd+0x650/0x850
iscsit_sequence_cmd+0x186/0x3d0
iscsit_process_scsi_cmd+0x87/0x300
isert_recv_done+0x1002/0x2390
? __pfx_isert_recv_done+0x10/0x10
? rxe_poll_cq+0x253/0x3d0
? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x1dc/0xa70
__ib_process_cq+0xe1/0x390
ib_cq_poll_work+0x46/0x150
process_one_work+0x633/0x1030
? assign_work+0x11d/0x370
worker_thread+0x45b/0xd10
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0x2c6/0x3b0
? recalc_sigpending+0x15c/0x1e0
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x36e/0x5a0
? __pfx_ret_from_fork+0x10/0x10
? __switch_to+0x572/0xdd0
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Delay the final Login Response instead. isert_get_rx_pdu() runs from
iscsi_target_rx_thread() after conn->rx_login_comp, completed by
iscsi_post_login_handler() after __transport_register_session(); iscsi-TCP
and cxgbit already take PDUs from that thread, isert alone does not. The
buffers are still posted first, so the initiator's first command does not
meet an empty receive queue and nothing depends on RNR flow control, and
the header and payload live in isert_conn, not in the struct iscsi_login
that iscsi_target_nego_release() frees first.
Over rxe, 400 login cycles per run, the oops appeared in 10 of 20
unpatched runs and in none of 20 runs with this patch. An
initiator that never waits is handled by the next patch.
Not tested: iWARP, discovery sessions over iSER, and real HCAs.
📍 영향받는 시스템
Linux kernel (specifically IB/isert module, version 7.2.0-rc5-V2CTL or similar)
⚔️ 공격 벡터
네트워크를 통해 iSER 프로토콜을 사용하는 대상에 대해 비정상적으로 빠른 SCSI 명령을 전송하여 커널 오류 유도
🛡️ 대응 방법
Linux 커널을 최신 보안 패치가 적용된 버전으로 업데이트하여 로그인 응답 지연 로직을 적용해야 합니다.
🔧 검증 코드
출력된 커널 버전이 취약점이 해결된 패치 버전 이후인지 확인합니다.