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GHSA-6VHV-FV5R-VFG6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-08-21 09:31 – Updated: 2025-01-08 21:32

Details

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

net/mlx5: Fix command stats access after free

Command may fail while driver is reloading and can't accept FW commands till command interface is reinitialized. Such command failure is being logged to command stats. This results in NULL pointer access as command stats structure is being freed and reallocated during mlx5 devlink reload (see kernel log below).

Fix it by making command stats statically allocated on driver probe.

Kernel log: [ 2394.808802] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000002a9c0 [ 2394.810610] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 2394.811811] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI ... [ 2394.815482] RIP: 0010:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x183/0x1d0 ... [ 2394.829505] Call Trace: [ 2394.830667] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x23/0x26 [ 2394.831858] cmd_status_err+0x55/0x110 [mlx5_core] [ 2394.833020] mlx5_access_reg+0xe7/0x150 [mlx5_core] [ 2394.834175] mlx5_query_port_ptys+0x78/0xa0 [mlx5_core] [ 2394.835337] mlx5e_ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0x74/0x590 [mlx5_core] [ 2394.836454] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x140/0x1c0 [ 2394.837562] __rh_call_get_link_ksettings+0x33/0x100 [ 2394.838663] ? __rtnl_unlock+0x25/0x50 [ 2394.839755] __ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0x72/0x150 [ 2394.840862] duplex_show+0x6e/0xc0 [ 2394.841963] dev_attr_show+0x1c/0x40 [ 2394.843048] sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x9b/0x100 [ 2394.844123] seq_read+0x153/0x410 [ 2394.845187] vfs_read+0x91/0x140 [ 2394.846226] ksys_read+0x4f/0xb0 [ 2394.847234] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0 [ 2394.848228] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2022-48884 (GCVE-0-2022-48884)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-21 06:10 – Updated: 2026-05-11 18:49

Title

net/mlx5: Fix command stats access after free

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix command stats access after free Command may fail while driver is reloading and can't accept FW commands till command interface is reinitialized. Such command failure is being logged to command stats. This results in NULL pointer access as command stats structure is being freed and reallocated during mlx5 devlink reload (see kernel log below). Fix it by making command stats statically allocated on driver probe. Kernel log: [ 2394.808802] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000002a9c0 [ 2394.810610] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 2394.811811] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI ... [ 2394.815482] RIP: 0010:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x183/0x1d0 ... [ 2394.829505] Call Trace: [ 2394.830667] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x23/0x26 [ 2394.831858] cmd_status_err+0x55/0x110 [mlx5_core] [ 2394.833020] mlx5_access_reg+0xe7/0x150 [mlx5_core] [ 2394.834175] mlx5_query_port_ptys+0x78/0xa0 [mlx5_core] [ 2394.835337] mlx5e_ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0x74/0x590 [mlx5_core] [ 2394.836454] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x140/0x1c0 [ 2394.837562] __rh_call_get_link_ksettings+0x33/0x100 [ 2394.838663] ? __rtnl_unlock+0x25/0x50 [ 2394.839755] __ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0x72/0x150 [ 2394.840862] duplex_show+0x6e/0xc0 [ 2394.841963] dev_attr_show+0x1c/0x40 [ 2394.843048] sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x9b/0x100 [ 2394.844123] seq_read+0x153/0x410 [ 2394.845187] vfs_read+0x91/0x140 [ 2394.846226] ksys_read+0x4f/0xb0 [ 2394.847234] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0 [ 2394.848228] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:04 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6637 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddf458641a511e7df…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da2e552b469a0cd13…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 34f46ae0d4b38e83cfb26fb6f06b5b5efea47fdc , < ddf458641a511e7dff19f3bf0cbbc5dd9fe08ce5 (git) Affected: 34f46ae0d4b38e83cfb26fb6f06b5b5efea47fdc , < da2e552b469a0cd130ff70a88ccc4139da428a65 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.18 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.7 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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