linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53029: octeontx2-pf: Fix the use of GFP

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Message-ID: <2025032720-CVE-2023-53029-a670@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:44:16 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53029: octeontx2-pf: Fix the use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context on rt

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

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

octeontx2-pf: Fix the use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context on rt

The commit 4af1b64f80fb ("octeontx2-pf: Fix lmtst ID used in aura
free") uses the get/put_cpu() to protect the usage of percpu pointer
in ->aura_freeptr() callback, but it also unnecessarily disable the
preemption for the blockable memory allocation. The commit 87b93b678e95
("octeontx2-pf: Avoid use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context") tried to
fix these sleep inside atomic warnings. But it only fix the one for
the non-rt kernel. For the rt kernel, we still get the similar warnings
like below.
  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
  preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
  RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
  3 locks held by swapper/0/1:
   #0: ffff800009fc5fe8 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rtnl_lock+0x24/0x30
   #1: ffff000100c276c0 (&mbox->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: otx2_init_hw_resources+0x8c/0x3a4
   #2: ffffffbfef6537e0 (&cpu_rcache->lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: alloc_iova_fast+0x1ac/0x2ac
  Preemption disabled at:
  [<ffff800008b1908c>] otx2_rq_aura_pool_init+0x14c/0x284
  CPU: 20 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W          6.2.0-rc3-rt1-yocto-preempt-rt #1
  Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN96XX board (DT)
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace.part.0+0xe8/0xf4
   show_stack+0x20/0x30
   dump_stack_lvl+0x9c/0xd8
   dump_stack+0x18/0x34
   __might_resched+0x188/0x224
   rt_spin_lock+0x64/0x110
   alloc_iova_fast+0x1ac/0x2ac
   iommu_dma_alloc_iova+0xd4/0x110
   __iommu_dma_map+0x80/0x144
   iommu_dma_map_page+0xe8/0x260
   dma_map_page_attrs+0xb4/0xc0
   __otx2_alloc_rbuf+0x90/0x150
   otx2_rq_aura_pool_init+0x1c8/0x284
   otx2_init_hw_resources+0xe4/0x3a4
   otx2_open+0xf0/0x610
   __dev_open+0x104/0x224
   __dev_change_flags+0x1e4/0x274
   dev_change_flags+0x2c/0x7c
   ic_open_devs+0x124/0x2f8
   ip_auto_config+0x180/0x42c
   do_one_initcall+0x90/0x4dc
   do_basic_setup+0x10c/0x14c
   kernel_init_freeable+0x10c/0x13c
   kernel_init+0x2c/0x140
   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Of course, we can shuffle the get/put_cpu() to only wrap the invocation
of ->aura_freeptr() as what commit 87b93b678e95 does. But there are only
two ->aura_freeptr() callbacks, otx2_aura_freeptr() and
cn10k_aura_freeptr(). There is no usage of perpcu variable in the
otx2_aura_freeptr() at all, so the get/put_cpu() seems redundant to it.
We can move the get/put_cpu() into the corresponding callback which
really has the percpu variable usage and avoid the sprinkling of
get/put_cpu() in several places.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53029 to this issue.

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

	Issue introduced in 5.15.87 with commit 6ea5273c71dd2d07c0a2459594eb34bc087939f7 and fixed in 5.15.91 with commit 29e9c67bf3271067735c188e95cf3631ecd64d58
	Issue introduced in 6.1.5 with commit 667ce030bdfb62a86266444b2c3fd6ab98b9df9b and fixed in 6.1.8 with commit 659518e013d6bd562bb0f1d2d9f99d0ac54720e2
	Issue introduced in 6.0.19 with commit b754dc7c933dd9464223f64b10d33d68ab086cc6

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-2023-53029
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/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.h

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/29e9c67bf3271067735c188e95cf3631ecd64d58
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/659518e013d6bd562bb0f1d2d9f99d0ac54720e2
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55ba18dc62deff5910c0fa64486dea1ff20832ff