CVE-2024-46765CWE-476

CVE-2024-46765

High · published September 18, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ice: protect XDP configuration with a mutex

The main threat to data consistency in ice_xdp() is a possible asynchronous

PF reset. It can be triggered by a user or by TX timeout handler.

XDP setup and PF reset code access the same resources in the following

sections:

* ice_vsi_close() in ice_prepare_for_reset() - already rtnl-locked

* ice_vsi_rebuild() for the PF VSI - not protected

* ice_vsi_open() - already rtnl-locked

With an unfortunate timing, such accesses can result in a crash such as the

one below:

[ +1.999878] ice 0000:b1:00.0: Registered XDP mem model MEM_TYPE_XSK_BUFF_POOL on Rx ring 14

[ +2.002992] ice 0000:b1:00.0: Registered XDP mem model MEM_TYPE_XSK_BUFF_POOL on Rx ring 18

[Mar15 18:17] ice 0000:b1:00.0 ens801f0np0: NETDEV WATCHDOG: CPU: 38: transmit queue 14 timed out 80692736 ms

[ +0.000093] ice 0000:b1:00.0 ens801f0np0: tx_timeout: VSI_num: 6, Q 14, NTC: 0x0, HW_HEAD: 0x0, NTU: 0x0, INT: 0x4000001

[ +0.000012] ice 0000:b1:00.0 ens801f0np0: tx_timeout recovery level 1, txqueue 14

[ +0.394718] ice 0000:b1:00.0: PTP reset successful

[ +0.006184] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000098

[ +0.000045] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode

[ +0.000023] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

[ +0.000023] PGD 0 P4D 0

[ +0.000018] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI

[ +0.000023] CPU: 38 PID: 7540 Comm: kworker/38:1 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc7 #1

[ +0.000031] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFT/S2600WFT, BIOS SE5C620.86B.02.01.0014.082620210524 08/26/2021

[ +0.000036] Workqueue: ice ice_service_task [ice]

[ +0.000183] RIP: 0010:ice_clean_tx_ring+0xa/0xd0 [ice]

[...]

[ +0.000013] Call Trace:

[ +0.000016] <TASK>

[ +0.000014] ? __die+0x1f/0x70

[ +0.000029] ? page_fault_oops+0x171/0x4f0

[ +0.000029] ? schedule+0x3b/0xd0

[ +0.000027] ? exc_page_fault+0x7b/0x180

[ +0.000022] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30

[ +0.000031] ? ice_clean_tx_ring+0xa/0xd0 [ice]

[ +0.000194] ice_free_tx_ring+0xe/0x60 [ice]

[ +0.000186] ice_destroy_xdp_rings+0x157/0x310 [ice]

[ +0.000151] ice_vsi_decfg+0x53/0xe0 [ice]

[ +0.000180] ice_vsi_rebuild+0x239/0x540 [ice]

[ +0.000186] ice_vsi_rebuild_by_type+0x76/0x180 [ice]

[ +0.000145] ice_rebuild+0x18c/0x840 [ice]

[ +0.000145] ? delay_tsc+0x4a/0xc0

[ +0.000022] ? delay_tsc+0x92/0xc0

[ +0.000020] ice_do_reset+0x140/0x180 [ice]

[ +0.000886] ice_service_task+0x404/0x1030 [ice]

[ +0.000824] process_one_work+0x171/0x340

[ +0.000685] worker_thread+0x277/0x3a0

[ +0.000675] ? preempt_count_add+0x6a/0xa0

[ +0.000677] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x23/0x50

[ +0.000679] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10

[ +0.000653] kthread+0xf0/0x120

[ +0.000635] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10

[ +0.000616] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50

[ +0.000612] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10

[ +0.000604] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30

[ +0.000604] </TASK>

The previous way of handling this through returning -EBUSY is not viable,

particularly when destroying AF_XDP socket, because the kernel proceeds

with removal anyway.

There is plenty of code between those calls and there is no need to create

a large critical section that covers all of them, same as there is no need

to protect ice_vsi_rebuild() with rtnl_lock().

Add xdp_state_lock mutex to protect ice_vsi_rebuild() and ice_xdp().

Leaving unprotected sections in between would result in two states that

have to be considered:

1. when the VSI is closed, but not yet rebuild

2. when VSI is already rebuild, but not yet open

The latter case is actually already handled through !netif_running() case,

we just need to adjust flag checking a little. The former one is not as

trivial, because between ice_vsi_close() and ice_vsi_rebuild(), a lot of

hardware interaction happens, this can make adding/deleting rings exit

with an error. Luckily, VSI rebuild is pending and can apply new

configuration for us in a managed fashion.

Therefore, add an additional VSI state flag ICE_VSI_REBUILD_PENDING to

indicate that ice_x

---truncated---

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00244 · 14.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2024-09-18T12:15Z
Affected products (8)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 6.6.516.6.51
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.10.106.10.10
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References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 SEP 07:12Z
    ice: protect XDP configuration with a mutex
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