can: j1939: fix errant WARN_ON_ONCE in j1939_session_deactivate
Published Mar 27, 2025
7.5
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.58%
Description
The conclusion "j1939_session_deactivate() should be called with a session ref-count of at least 2" is incorrect. In some concurrent scenarios, j1939_session_deactivate can be called with the session ref-count less than 2. But there is not any problem because it will check the session active state before session putting in j1939_session_deactivate_locked().
Here is the concurrent scenario of the problem reported by syzbot and my reproduction log.
cpu0 cpu1 j1939_xtp_rx_eoma j1939_xtp_rx_abort_one j1939_session_get_by_addr [kref == 2] j1939_session_get_by_addr [kref == 3] j1939_session_deactivate [kref == 2] j1939_session_put [kref == 1] j1939_session_completed j1939_session_deactivate WARN_ON_ONCE(kref < 2)
===================================================== WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 21 at net/can/j1939/transport.c:1088 j1939_session_deactivate+0x5f/0x70 CPU: 1 PID: 21 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 5.14.0-rc7+ #32 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:j1939_session_deactivate+0x5f/0x70 Call Trace: j1939_session_deactivate_activate_next+0x11/0x28 j1939_xtp_rx_eoma+0x12a/0x180 j1939_tp_recv+0x4a2/0x510 j1939_can_recv+0x226/0x380 can_rcv_filter+0xf8/0x220 can_receive+0x102/0x220 ? process_backlog+0xf0/0x2c0 can_rcv+0x53/0xf0 __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x67/0x90 ? process_backlog+0x97/0x2c0 __netif_receive_skb+0x22/0x80
Affected products
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- Version StatusaffectedConstraints
- Version StatusaffectedConstraints
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- Version StatusaffectedConstraints
- Version
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- Version 5.10.56StatusaffectedConstraints<5.10.168
- Version 5.13.8StatusaffectedConstraints<5.14
- Version 5.4.138StatusaffectedConstraints<5.4.232
- Version
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- Version 5.14StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 0StatusunaffectedConstraints<5.14
- Version 5.10.168StatusunaffectedConstraints<=5.10.*
- Version 5.15.93StatusunaffectedConstraints<=5.15.*
- Version 5.4.232StatusunaffectedConstraints<=5.4.*
- Version 6.1.11StatusunaffectedConstraints<=6.1.*
- Version 6.2StatusunaffectedConstraints<=*
- Version
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Linux | Linux | unaffected |
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| Linux | Linux | affected |
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- ≥ 5.4.138 · < 5.4.232
- ≥ 5.10.56 · < 5.10.168
- ≥ 5.13.8 · < 5.14
- ≥ 5.14.1 · < 5.15.93
- ≥ 5.16 · < 6.1.11
- 5.14
- 5.14
- 5.14
- 5.14
- 5.14
- 6.2
- 6.2
- 6.2
- 6.2
- 6.2
- 6.2
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
kernel
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
kernel
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
kernel
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
kernel-rt
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
kernel
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
kernel-rt
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
kernel
Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
kernel-rt
Fix deferred
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | kernel | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kernel | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel-rt | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | kernel | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | kernel-rt | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | kernel | Fix deferred | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | kernel-rt | Fix deferred | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
References (11)
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4454 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2355529 Issue Tracking
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-34674 Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1740a1e45eee65099a92fb502e1e67e63aad277d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6950df42a03c9ac9290503ced3f371199cb68fa9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ab896775f98ff54b68512f345eed178bf961084 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6d44072117bba057d50f7a2f96e5d070c65926d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0553680f94c49bbe0e39eb50d033ba563b4212d Patch
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025032716-CVE-2021-4454-f4a4@gregkh/T
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4454
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4454
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