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

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 3, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

nouveau: fix instmem race condition around ptr stores

Running a lot of VK CTS in parallel against nouveau, once every
few hours you might see something like this crash.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
PGD 8000000114e6e067 P4D 8000000114e6e067 PUD 109046067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 7 PID: 53891 Comm: deqp-vk Not tainted 6.8.0-rc6+ #27
Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z390 I AORUS PRO WIFI/Z390 I AORUS PRO WIFI-CF, BIOS F8 11/05/2021
RIP: 0010:gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0xe3/0x180 [nouveau]
Code: c7 48 01 c8 49 89 45 58 85 d2 0f 84 95 00 00 00 41 0f b7 46 12 49 8b 7e 08 89 da 42 8d 2c f8 48 8b 47 08 41 83 c7 01 48 89 ee <48> 8b 40 08 ff d0 0f 1f 00 49 8b 7e 08 48 89 d9 48 8d 75 04 48 c1
RSP: 0000:ffffac20c5857838 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000004d8001 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 00000000004d8001 RSI: 00000000000006d8 RDI: ffffa07afe332180
RBP: 00000000000006d8 R08: ffffac20c5857ad0 R09: 0000000000ffff10
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffa07af27e2de0 R12: 000000000000001c
R13: ffffac20c5857ad0 R14: ffffa07a96fe9040 R15: 000000000000001c
FS: 00007fe395eed7c0(0000) GS:ffffa07e2c980000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 000000011febe001 CR4: 00000000003706f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:

...

? gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0xe3/0x180 [nouveau]
? gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0x37/0x180 [nouveau]
nvkm_vmm_iter+0x351/0xa20 [nouveau]
? __pfx_nvkm_vmm_ref_ptes+0x10/0x10 [nouveau]
? __pfx_gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0x10/0x10 [nouveau]
? __pfx_gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0x10/0x10 [nouveau]
? __lock_acquire+0x3ed/0x2170
? __pfx_gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0x10/0x10 [nouveau]
nvkm_vmm_ptes_get_map+0xc2/0x100 [nouveau]
? __pfx_nvkm_vmm_ref_ptes+0x10/0x10 [nouveau]
? __pfx_gp100_vmm_pgt_mem+0x10/0x10 [nouveau]
nvkm_vmm_map_locked+0x224/0x3a0 [nouveau]

Adding any sort of useful debug usually makes it go away, so I hand
wrote the function in a line, and debugged the asm.

Every so often pt->memory->ptrs is NULL. This ptrs ptr is set in
the nv50_instobj_acquire called from nvkm_kmap.

If Thread A and Thread B both get to nv50_instobj_acquire around
the same time, and Thread A hits the refcount_set line, and in
lockstep thread B succeeds at refcount_inc_not_zero, there is a
chance the ptrs value won't have been stored since refcount_set
is unordered. Force a memory barrier here, I picked smp_mb, since
we want it on all CPUs and it's write followed by a read.

v2: use paired smp_rmb/smp_wmb.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 1, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2024
Last updated Jul 3, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.044%
(14th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-26984

GHSA ID

GHSA-w8h9-x2qc-v5qf

Source code

No known source code

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