CVE-2024-26687

xen/events: close evtchn after mapping cleanup

published April 3, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

xen/events: close evtchn after mapping cleanup

shutdown_pirq and startup_pirq are not taking the

irq_mapping_update_lock because they can't due to lock inversion. Both

are called with the irq_desc->lock being taking. The lock order,

however, is first irq_mapping_update_lock and then irq_desc->lock.

This opens multiple races:

- shutdown_pirq can be interrupted by a function that allocates an event

channel:

CPU0 CPU1

shutdown_pirq {

xen_evtchn_close(e)

__startup_pirq {

EVTCHNOP_bind_pirq

-> returns just freed evtchn e

set_evtchn_to_irq(e, irq)

}

xen_irq_info_cleanup() {

set_evtchn_to_irq(e, -1)

}

}

Assume here event channel e refers here to the same event channel

number.

After this race the evtchn_to_irq mapping for e is invalid (-1).

- __startup_pirq races with __unbind_from_irq in a similar way. Because

__startup_pirq doesn't take irq_mapping_update_lock it can grab the

evtchn that __unbind_from_irq is currently freeing and cleaning up. In

this case even though the event channel is allocated, its mapping can

be unset in evtchn_to_irq.

The fix is to first cleanup the mappings and then close the event

channel. In this way, when an event channel gets allocated it's

potential previous evtchn_to_irq mappings are guaranteed to be unset already.

This is also the reverse order of the allocation where first the event

channel is allocated and then the mappings are setup.

On a 5.10 kernel prior to commit 3fcdaf3d7634 ("xen/events: modify internal

[un]bind interfaces"), we hit a BUG like the following during probing of NVMe

devices. The issue is that during nvme_setup_io_queues, pci_free_irq

is called for every device which results in a call to shutdown_pirq.

With many nvme devices it's therefore likely to hit this race during

boot because there will be multiple calls to shutdown_pirq and

startup_pirq are running potentially in parallel.

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blkfront: xvda: barrier or flush: disabled; persistent grants: enabled; indirect descriptors: enabled; bounce buffer: enabled

kernel BUG at drivers/xen/events/events_base.c:499!

invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI

CPU: 44 PID: 375 Comm: kworker/u257:23 Not tainted 5.10.201-191.748.amzn2.x86_64 #1

Hardware name: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.11.amazon 08/24/2006

Workqueue: nvme-reset-wq nvme_reset_work

RIP: 0010:bind_evtchn_to_cpu+0xdf/0xf0

Code: 5d 41 5e c3 cc cc cc cc 44 89 f7 e8 2b 55 ad ff 49 89 c5 48 85 c0 0f 84 64 ff ff ff 4c 8b 68 30 41 83 fe ff 0f 85 60 ff ff ff <0f> 0b 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 0f 1f 44 00 00

RSP: 0000:ffffc9000d533b08 EFLAGS: 00010046

RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000006

RDX: 0000000000000028 RSI: 00000000ffffffff RDI: 00000000ffffffff

RBP: ffff888107419680 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff82d72b00

R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000000001ed

R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000ffffffff R15: 0000000000000002

FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88bc8b500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000002610001 CR4: 00000000001706e0

DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Call Trace:

? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c1/0x2d9

? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c1/0x2d9

? set_affinity_irq+0xdc/0x1c0

? __die_body.cold+0x8/0xd

? die+0x2b/0x50

? do_trap+0x90/0x110

? bind_evtchn_to_cpu+0xdf/0xf0

? do_error_trap+0x65/0x80

? bind_evtchn_to_cpu+0xdf/0xf0

? exc_invalid_op+0x4e/0x70

? bind_evtchn_to_cpu+0xdf/0xf0

? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x12/0x20

? bind_evtchn_to_cpu+0xdf/0x

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The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00228 · 12.9th percentile
Published
2024-04-03T14:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 APR 14:54Z
    xen/events: close evtchn after mapping cleanup
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