linux-cve-announce - CVE-2024-41098: ata: libata-core: Fix null pointer dereference on error

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Message-ID: <2024072954-CVE-2024-41098-eeec@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:49:00 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-41098: ata: libata-core: Fix null pointer dereference on error

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

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

ata: libata-core: Fix null pointer dereference on error

If the ata_port_alloc() call in ata_host_alloc() fails,
ata_host_release() will get called.

However, the code in ata_host_release() tries to free ata_port struct
members unconditionally, which can lead to the following:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000003990
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 10 PID: 594 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.10.0-rc5 #44
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ata_host_release.cold+0x2f/0x6e [libata]
Code: e4 4d 63 f4 44 89 e2 48 c7 c6 90 ad 32 c0 48 c7 c7 d0 70 33 c0 49 83 c6 0e 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000ebb968 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000041 RBX: ffff88810fb52e78 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88813b3218c0 RDI: ffff88813b3218c0
RBP: ffff88810fb52e40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 6c65725f74736f68
R10: ffffc90000ebb738 R11: 73692033203a746e R12: 0000000000000004
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000011 R15: 0000000000000006
FS:  00007f6cc55b9980(0000) GS:ffff88813b300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000003990 CR3: 00000001122a2000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x27
 ? page_fault_oops+0x15a/0x2f0
 ? exc_page_fault+0x7e/0x180
 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
 ? ata_host_release.cold+0x2f/0x6e [libata]
 ? ata_host_release.cold+0x2f/0x6e [libata]
 release_nodes+0x35/0xb0
 devres_release_group+0x113/0x140
 ata_host_alloc+0xed/0x120 [libata]
 ata_host_alloc_pinfo+0x14/0xa0 [libata]
 ahci_init_one+0x6c9/0xd20 [ahci]

Do not access ata_port struct members unconditionally.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-41098 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 2.6.24 with commit 633273a3ed1c and fixed in 6.6.37 with commit 119c97ace2a9
	Issue introduced in 2.6.24 with commit 633273a3ed1c and fixed in 6.9.8 with commit 8a8ff7e3b736
	Issue introduced in 2.6.24 with commit 633273a3ed1c and fixed in 6.10 with commit 5d92c7c566dc

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-2024-41098
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/ata/libata-core.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/119c97ace2a9ffcf4dc09a23bb057d6c281aff28
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a8ff7e3b736a70d7b7c8764cbcd2724d4079ec8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d92c7c566dc76d96e0e19e481d926bbe6631c1e