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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Oct 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 24, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

IB/mlx5: Fix UMR pd cleanup on error flow of driver init

The cited commit moves the pd allocation from function
mlx5r_umr_resource_cleanup() to a new function mlx5r_umr_cleanup().
So the fix in commit [1] is broken. In error flow, will hit panic [2].

Fix it by checking pd pointer to avoid panic if it is NULL;

[1] RDMA/mlx5: Fix UMR cleanup on error flow of driver init
[2]
[ 347.567063] infiniband mlx5_0: Couldn't register device with driver model
[ 347.591382] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
[ 347.593438] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 347.595176] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 347.596962] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 347.601361] RIP: 0010:ib_dealloc_pd_user+0x12/0xc0 [ib_core]
[ 347.604171] RSP: 0018:ffff888106293b10 EFLAGS: 00010282
[ 347.604834] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000e RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 347.605672] RDX: ffff888106293ad0 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 347.606529] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff888106293ae0 R09: ffff888106293ae0
[ 347.607379] R10: 0000000000000a06 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 347.608224] R13: ffffffffa0704dc0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
[ 347.609067] FS: 00007fdc720cd9c0(0000) GS:ffff88852c880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 347.610094] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 347.610727] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 0000000103012003 CR4: 0000000000370eb0
[ 347.611421] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 347.612113] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 347.612804] Call Trace:
[ 347.613130]
[ 347.613417] ? __die+0x20/0x60
[ 347.613793] ? page_fault_oops+0x150/0x3e0
[ 347.614243] ? free_msg+0x68/0x80 [mlx5_core]
[ 347.614840] ? cmd_exec+0x48f/0x11d0 [mlx5_core]
[ 347.615359] ? exc_page_fault+0x74/0x130
[ 347.615808] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
[ 347.616273] ? ib_dealloc_pd_user+0x12/0xc0 [ib_core]
[ 347.616801] mlx5r_umr_cleanup+0x23/0x90 [mlx5_ib]
[ 347.617365] mlx5_ib_stage_pre_ib_reg_umr_cleanup+0x36/0x40 [mlx5_ib]
[ 347.618025] __mlx5_ib_add+0x96/0xd0 [mlx5_ib]
[ 347.618539] mlx5r_probe+0xe9/0x310 [mlx5_ib]
[ 347.619032] ? kernfs_add_one+0x107/0x150
[ 347.619478] ? __mlx5_ib_add+0xd0/0xd0 [mlx5_ib]
[ 347.619984] auxiliary_bus_probe+0x3e/0x90
[ 347.620448] really_probe+0xc5/0x3a0
[ 347.620857] __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160
[ 347.621325] driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
[ 347.621770] __driver_attach+0xec/0x1c0
[ 347.622213] ? __device_attach_driver+0x100/0x100
[ 347.622724] bus_for_each_dev+0x71/0xc0
[ 347.623151] bus_add_driver+0xed/0x240
[ 347.623570] driver_register+0x58/0x100
[ 347.623998] __auxiliary_driver_register+0x6a/0xc0
[ 347.624499] ? driver_register+0xae/0x100
[ 347.624940] ? 0xffffffffa0893000
[ 347.625329] mlx5_ib_init+0x16a/0x1e0 [mlx5_ib]
[ 347.625845] do_one_initcall+0x4a/0x2a0
[ 347.626273] ? gcov_event+0x2e2/0x3a0
[ 347.626706] do_init_module+0x8a/0x260
[ 347.627126] init_module_from_file+0x8b/0xd0
[ 347.627596] __x64_sys_finit_module+0x1ca/0x2f0
[ 347.628089] do_syscall_64+0x4c/0x100

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 21, 2024
Last updated Oct 24, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.043%
(10th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-47694

GHSA ID

GHSA-52mx-xj4w-gw54

Source code

No known source code

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