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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2021-46931

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 2/27/2024 5:15:07 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

net/mlx5e: Wrap the tx reporter dump callback to extract the sq

Function mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump_sq() casts its void * argument to struct
mlx5e_txqsq *, but in TX-timeout-recovery flow the argument is actually
of type struct mlx5e_tx_timeout_ctx *.

 mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1 enp8s0f1: TX timeout detected
 mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1 enp8s0f1: TX timeout on queue: 1, SQ: 0x11ec, CQ: 0x146d, SQ Cons: 0x0 SQ Prod: 0x1, usecs since last trans: 21565000
 BUG: stack guard page was hit at 0000000093f1a2de (stack is 00000000b66ea0dc..000000004d932dae)
 kernel stack overflow (page fault): 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 5 PID: 95 Comm: kworker/u20:1 Tainted: G W OE 5.13.0_mlnx #1
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
 Workqueue: mlx5e mlx5e_tx_timeout_work [mlx5_core]
 RIP: 0010:mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump_sq+0xd3/0x180
 [mlx5_core]
 Call Trace:
 mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump+0x43/0x1c0 [mlx5_core]
 devlink_health_do_dump.part.91+0x71/0xd0
 devlink_health_report+0x157/0x1b0
 mlx5e_reporter_tx_timeout+0xb9/0xf0 [mlx5_core]
 ? mlx5e_tx_reporter_err_cqe_recover+0x1d0/0x1d0
 [mlx5_core]
 ? mlx5e_health_queue_dump+0xd0/0xd0 [mlx5_core]
 ? update_load_avg+0x19b/0x550
 ? set_next_entity+0x72/0x80
 ? pick_next_task_fair+0x227/0x340
 ? finish_task_switch+0xa2/0x280
   mlx5e_tx_timeout_work+0x83/0xb0 [mlx5_core]
   process_one_work+0x1de/0x3a0
   worker_thread+0x2d/0x3c0
 ? process_one_work+0x3a0/0x3a0
   kthread+0x115/0x130
 ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
   ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
 --[ end trace 51ccabea504edaff ]---
 RIP: 0010:mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump_sq+0xd3/0x180
 PKRU: 55555554
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
 Kernel Offset: disabled
 end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

To fix this bug add a wrapper for mlx5e_tx_reporter_dump_sq() which
extracts the sq from struct mlx5e_tx_timeout_ctx and set it as the
TX-timeout-recovery flow dump callback.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07f13d58a8ecc3baf9a488588fb38c5cb0db484f [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73665165b64a8f3c5b3534009a69be55bb744f05 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/918fc3855a6507a200e9cf22c20be852c0982687 [No types assigned]