CVE-2021-47497

nvmem: Fix shift-out-of-bound (UBSAN) with byte size cells

published May 22, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

nvmem: Fix shift-out-of-bound (UBSAN) with byte size cells

If a cell has 'nbits' equal to a multiple of BITS_PER_BYTE the logic

*p &= GENMASK((cell->nbits%BITS_PER_BYTE) - 1, 0);

will become undefined behavior because nbits modulo BITS_PER_BYTE is 0, and we

subtract one from that making a large number that is then shifted more than the

number of bits that fit into an unsigned long.

UBSAN reports this problem:

UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/nvmem/core.c:1386:8

shift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'unsigned long'

CPU: 6 PID: 7 Comm: kworker/u16:0 Not tainted 5.15.0-rc3+ #9

Hardware name: Google Lazor (rev3+) with KB Backlight (DT)

Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func

Call trace:

dump_backtrace+0x0/0x170

show_stack+0x24/0x30

dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x7c

dump_stack+0x18/0x38

ubsan_epilogue+0x10/0x54

__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x180/0x194

__nvmem_cell_read+0x1ec/0x21c

nvmem_cell_read+0x58/0x94

nvmem_cell_read_variable_common+0x4c/0xb0

nvmem_cell_read_variable_le_u32+0x40/0x100

a6xx_gpu_init+0x170/0x2f4

adreno_bind+0x174/0x284

component_bind_all+0xf0/0x264

msm_drm_bind+0x1d8/0x7a0

try_to_bring_up_master+0x164/0x1ac

__component_add+0xbc/0x13c

component_add+0x20/0x2c

dp_display_probe+0x340/0x384

platform_probe+0xc0/0x100

really_probe+0x110/0x304

__driver_probe_device+0xb8/0x120

driver_probe_device+0x4c/0xfc

__device_attach_driver+0xb0/0x128

bus_for_each_drv+0x90/0xdc

__device_attach+0xc8/0x174

device_initial_probe+0x20/0x2c

bus_probe_device+0x40/0xa4

deferred_probe_work_func+0x7c/0xb8

process_one_work+0x128/0x21c

process_scheduled_works+0x40/0x54

worker_thread+0x1ec/0x2a8

kthread+0x138/0x158

ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Fix it by making sure there are any bits to mask out.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00221 · 12.0th percentile
Published
2024-05-22T08:19Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 MAY 08:19Z
    nvmem: Fix shift-out-of-bound (UBSAN) with byte size cells
    cvelistv5