linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-48868: dmaengine: idxd: Let probe fail when workqueue cannot be enabled

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Message-ID: <2024082105-CVE-2022-48868-866e@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:11:02 +0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-48868: dmaengine: idxd: Let probe fail when workqueue cannot be enabled

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

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

dmaengine: idxd: Let probe fail when workqueue cannot be enabled

The workqueue is enabled when the appropriate driver is loaded and
disabled when the driver is removed. When the driver is removed it
assumes that the workqueue was enabled successfully and proceeds to
free allocations made during workqueue enabling.

Failure during workqueue enabling does not prevent the driver from
being loaded. This is because the error path within drv_enable_wq()
returns success unless a second failure is encountered
during the error path. By returning success it is possible to load
the driver even if the workqueue cannot be enabled and
allocations that do not exist are attempted to be freed during
driver remove.

Some examples of problematic flows:
(a)

 idxd_dmaengine_drv_probe() -> drv_enable_wq() -> idxd_wq_request_irq():
 In above flow, if idxd_wq_request_irq() fails then
 idxd_wq_unmap_portal() is called on error exit path, but
 drv_enable_wq() returns 0 because idxd_wq_disable() succeeds. The
 driver is thus loaded successfully.

 idxd_dmaengine_drv_remove()->drv_disable_wq()->idxd_wq_unmap_portal()
 Above flow on driver unload triggers the WARN in devm_iounmap() because
 the device resource has already been removed during error path of
 drv_enable_wq().

(b)

 idxd_dmaengine_drv_probe() -> drv_enable_wq() -> idxd_wq_request_irq():
 In above flow, if idxd_wq_request_irq() fails then
 idxd_wq_init_percpu_ref() is never called to initialize the percpu
 counter, yet the driver loads successfully because drv_enable_wq()
 returns 0.

 idxd_dmaengine_drv_remove()->__idxd_wq_quiesce()->percpu_ref_kill():
 Above flow on driver unload triggers a BUG when attempting to drop the
 initial ref of the uninitialized percpu ref:
 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010

Fix the drv_enable_wq() error path by returning the original error that
indicates failure of workqueue enabling. This ensures that the probe
fails when an error is encountered and the driver remove paths are only
attempted when the workqueue was enabled successfully.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-48868 to this issue.

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

	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 1f2bb40337f0 and fixed in 5.15.90 with commit 0f150134dd79
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 1f2bb40337f0 and fixed in 6.1.8 with commit 99dc4520b74e
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 1f2bb40337f0 and fixed in 6.2 with commit b51b75f0604f

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-2022-48868
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/dma/idxd/device.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/0f150134dd795ffcd60b798a85ab737d8d010fb7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99dc4520b74e7ca8e9dc9abe37a0b10b49467960
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b51b75f0604f17c0f6f3b6f68f1a521a5cc6b04f