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

net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix unlocked writing to ICOSQ

During napi poll, when the affinity changes and there's still XSK work
to be done, we trigger an ICOSQ interrupt on the new CPU. However, this
triggering on the ICOSQ is done unprotected.

There are 2 such races:

A) mlx5e_trigger_irq() is called while mlx5e_xsk_alloc_rx_mpwqe() is
running from a different CPU due to affinity change. This can happen
because IRQ triggering is done after napi_complete_done(). At this point
the NAPI can be scheduled on a different CPU. Like this:

  CPU A (old affinity, NAPI tail)    CPU B (new affinity, fresh NAPI)
  -------------------------------    --------------------------------
  napi_complete_done()  clears SCHED
  mlx5e_cq_arm(...)
                                     napi_schedule_prep() sets SCHED
                                     mlx5e_napi_poll()
                                       mlx5e_xsk_alloc_rx_mpwqe()
                                         mlx5e_icosq_sync_lock() // noop
                                         memcpy 640 B UMR body
                                         advance sq->pc by 10
  mlx5e_trigger_irq(&c->icosq)
    wqe_info[pi] = {NOP, 1}
    mlx5e_post_nop() advances sq->pc

B) mlx5e_trigger_irq() is called on the ICOSQ when
mlx5e_trigger_napi_icosq() is running.

The obvious fix would be to lock the ICOSQ. But ICOSQ has an optimized
locking scheme that doesn't work for this scenario. Kick the async ICOSQ
instead which is always locked.

This issue was noticed in the wild with the following splat:

  netdevice: ge-0-0-1: Bad OP in ICOSQ CQE: 0xd
  WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c:826 [...]
  [...]
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>
   mlx5e_napi_poll+0x11d/0x7f0 [mlx5_core]
   __napi_poll+0x30/0x200
   ? skb_defer_free_flush+0x9c/0xc0
   net_rx_action+0x2fe/0x3f0
   handle_softirqs+0xd8/0x340
   __irq_exit_rcu+0xbc/0xe0
   common_interrupt+0x85/0xa0
   </IRQ>
   <TASK>
   asm_common_interrupt+0x26/0x40
  [...]
  ---

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d3b91e7d81000d295cd914d4d9d6f860252e2bf

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c326f9c68921e2f14dfcecb2f6b4216313d50248

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