linux-cve-announce - CVE-2024-38544: RDMA/rxe: Fix seg fault in rxe_comp_queue

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Message-ID: <2024061949-CVE-2024-38544-601b@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:35:53 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-38544: RDMA/rxe: Fix seg fault in rxe_comp_queue_pkt

Description
===========

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

RDMA/rxe: Fix seg fault in rxe_comp_queue_pkt

In rxe_comp_queue_pkt() an incoming response packet skb is enqueued to the
resp_pkts queue and then a decision is made whether to run the completer
task inline or schedule it. Finally the skb is dereferenced to bump a 'hw'
performance counter. This is wrong because if the completer task is
already running in a separate thread it may have already processed the skb
and freed it which can cause a seg fault.  This has been observed
infrequently in testing at high scale.

This patch fixes this by changing the order of enqueuing the packet until
after the counter is accessed.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-38544 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.12 with commit 0b1e5b99a48b and fixed in 6.1.93 with commit faa8d0ecf6c9
	Issue introduced in 4.12 with commit 0b1e5b99a48b and fixed in 6.6.33 with commit 21b4c6d4d890
	Issue introduced in 4.12 with commit 0b1e5b99a48b and fixed in 6.8.12 with commit bbad88f111a1
	Issue introduced in 4.12 with commit 0b1e5b99a48b and fixed in 6.9.3 with commit 30df4bef8b8e
	Issue introduced in 4.12 with commit 0b1e5b99a48b and fixed in 6.10-rc1 with commit 2b23b6097303

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2024-38544
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_comp.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/faa8d0ecf6c9c7c2ace3ca3e552180ada6f75e19
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21b4c6d4d89030fd4657a8e7c8110fd941049794
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbad88f111a1829f366c189aa48e7e58e57553fc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30df4bef8b8e183333e9b6e9d4509d552c7da6eb
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b23b6097303ed0ba5f4bc036a1c07b6027af5c6