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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Feb 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 12, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

net/mlx5e: Wrap the tx reporter dump callback to extract the sq

Function mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump_sq() casts its void * argument to struct
mlx5e_txqsq *, but in TX-timeout-recovery flow the argument is actually
of type struct mlx5e_tx_timeout_ctx *.

mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1 enp8s0f1: TX timeout detected
mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1 enp8s0f1: TX timeout on queue: 1, SQ: 0x11ec, CQ: 0x146d, SQ Cons: 0x0 SQ Prod: 0x1, usecs since last trans: 21565000
BUG: stack guard page was hit at 0000000093f1a2de (stack is 00000000b66ea0dc..000000004d932dae)
kernel stack overflow (page fault): 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 5 PID: 95 Comm: kworker/u20:1 Tainted: G W OE 5.13.0_mlnx #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: mlx5e mlx5e_tx_timeout_work [mlx5_core]
RIP: 0010:mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump_sq+0xd3/0x180
[mlx5_core]
Call Trace:
mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump+0x43/0x1c0 [mlx5_core]
devlink_health_do_dump.part.91+0x71/0xd0
devlink_health_report+0x157/0x1b0
mlx5e_reporter_tx_timeout+0xb9/0xf0 [mlx5_core]
? mlx5e_tx_reporter_err_cqe_recover+0x1d0/0x1d0
[mlx5_core]
? mlx5e_health_queue_dump+0xd0/0xd0 [mlx5_core]
? update_load_avg+0x19b/0x550
? set_next_entity+0x72/0x80
? pick_next_task_fair+0x227/0x340
? finish_task_switch+0xa2/0x280
mlx5e_tx_timeout_work+0x83/0xb0 [mlx5_core]
process_one_work+0x1de/0x3a0
worker_thread+0x2d/0x3c0
? process_one_work+0x3a0/0x3a0
kthread+0x115/0x130
? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
--[ end trace 51ccabea504edaff ]---
RIP: 0010:mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump_sq+0xd3/0x180
PKRU: 55555554
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Kernel Offset: disabled
end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

To fix this bug add a wrapper for mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump_sq() which
extracts the sq from struct mlx5e_tx_timeout_ctx and set it as the
TX-timeout-recovery flow dump callback.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 27, 2024
Last updated Apr 12, 2024

Severity

Moderate
5.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-46931

GHSA ID

GHSA-5gx7-f5j6-6r9q

Source code

No known source code

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