CVE-2021-47523

IB/hfi1: Fix leak of rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr

published May 24, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

IB/hfi1: Fix leak of rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr

This buffer is currently allocated in hfi1_init():

if (reinit)

ret = init_after_reset(dd);

else

ret = loadtime_init(dd);

if (ret)

goto done;

/* allocate dummy tail memory for all receive contexts */

dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr = dma_alloc_coherent(&dd->pcidev->dev,

sizeof(u64),

&dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_dma,

GFP_KERNEL);

if (!dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr) {

dd_dev_err(dd, "cannot allocate dummy tail memory\n");

ret = -ENOMEM;

goto done;

}

The reinit triggered path will overwrite the old allocation and leak it.

Fix by moving the allocation to hfi1_alloc_devdata() and the deallocation

to hfi1_free_devdata().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00239 · 14.1th percentile
Published
2024-05-24T15:09Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 MAY 15:09Z
    IB/hfi1: Fix leak of rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr
    cvelistv5