linux-cve-announce - CVE-2024-38608: net/mlx5e: Fix netif state handling

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Message-ID: <2024061920-CVE-2024-38608-4068@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:56:21 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-38608: net/mlx5e: Fix netif state handling

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

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

net/mlx5e: Fix netif state handling

mlx5e_suspend cleans resources only if netif_device_present() returns
true. However, mlx5e_resume changes the state of netif, via
mlx5e_nic_enable, only if reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED.
In the below case, the above leads to NULL-ptr Oops[1] and memory
leaks:

mlx5e_probe
 _mlx5e_resume
  mlx5e_attach_netdev
   mlx5e_nic_enable  <-- netdev not reg, not calling netif_device_attach()
  register_netdev <-- failed for some reason.
ERROR_FLOW:
 _mlx5e_suspend <-- netif_device_present return false, resources aren't freed :(

Hence, clean resources in this case as well.

[1]
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP
CPU: 2 PID: 9345 Comm: test-ovs-ct-gen Not tainted 6.5.0_for_upstream_min_debug_2023_09_05_16_01 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:0x0
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at0xffffffffffffffd6.
RSP: 0018:ffff888178aaf758 EFLAGS: 00010246
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? __die+0x20/0x60
 ? page_fault_oops+0x14c/0x3c0
 ? exc_page_fault+0x75/0x140
 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
 notifier_call_chain+0x35/0xb0
 blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x3d/0x60
 mlx5_blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x22/0x30 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_core_uplink_netdev_event_replay+0x3e/0x60 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_mdev_netdev_track+0x53/0x60 [mlx5_ib]
 mlx5_ib_roce_init+0xc3/0x340 [mlx5_ib]
 __mlx5_ib_add+0x34/0xd0 [mlx5_ib]
 mlx5r_probe+0xe1/0x210 [mlx5_ib]
 ? auxiliary_match_id+0x6a/0x90
 auxiliary_bus_probe+0x38/0x80
 ? driver_sysfs_add+0x51/0x80
 really_probe+0xc9/0x3e0
 ? driver_probe_device+0x90/0x90
 __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160
 driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
 __device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100
 bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0xd0
 __device_attach+0xbc/0x1f0
 bus_probe_device+0x86/0xa0
 device_add+0x637/0x840
 __auxiliary_device_add+0x3b/0xa0
 add_adev+0xc9/0x140 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked+0x22a/0x310 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_register_device+0x53/0xa0 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_init_one_devl_locked+0x5c4/0x9c0 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_init_one+0x3b/0x60 [mlx5_core]
 probe_one+0x44c/0x730 [mlx5_core]
 local_pci_probe+0x3e/0x90
 pci_device_probe+0xbf/0x210
 ? kernfs_create_link+0x5d/0xa0
 ? sysfs_do_create_link_sd+0x60/0xc0
 really_probe+0xc9/0x3e0
 ? driver_probe_device+0x90/0x90
 __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160
 driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
 __device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100
 bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0xd0
 __device_attach+0xbc/0x1f0
 pci_bus_add_device+0x54/0x80
 pci_iov_add_virtfn+0x2e6/0x320
 sriov_enable+0x208/0x420
 mlx5_core_sriov_configure+0x9e/0x200 [mlx5_core]
 sriov_numvfs_store+0xae/0x1a0
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x10c/0x1a0
 vfs_write+0x291/0x3c0
 ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
 CR2: 0000000000000000
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000  ]---

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-38608 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 4.12 with commit 2c3b5beec46a and fixed in 6.9.3 with commit f7e6cfb864a5
	Issue introduced in 4.12 with commit 2c3b5beec46a and fixed in 6.10-rc1 with commit 3d5918477f94

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-2024-38608
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/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.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/f7e6cfb864a53af71c5cc904f1cc22215d68f5c6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d5918477f94e4c2f064567875c475468e264644