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CVE-2024-42071
published 2024-07-29

CVE-2024-42071: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ionic: use dev_consume_skb_any outside of napi If we're not in a NAPI softirq context, we…

PriorityP420medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.22%
12.7th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ionic: use dev_consume_skb_any outside of napi If we're not in a NAPI softirq context, we need to be careful about how we call napi_consume_skb(), specifically we need to call it with budget==0 to signal to it that we're not in a safe context. This was found while running some configuration stress testing of traffic and a change queue config loop running, and this curious note popped out: [ 4371.402645] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: ethtool/20545 [ 4371.402897] caller is napi_skb_cache_put+0x16/0x80 [ 4371.403120] CPU: 25 PID: 20545 Comm: ethtool Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE 6.10.0-rc3-netnext+ #8 [ 4371.403302] Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10/ProLiant DL360 Gen10, BIOS U32 01/23/2021 [ 4371.403460] Call Trace: [ 4371.403613] [ 4371.403758] dump_stack_lvl+0x4f/0x70 [ 4371.403904] check_preemption_disabled+0xc1/0xe0 [ 4371.404051] napi_skb_cache_put+0x16/0x80 [ 4371.404199] ionic_tx_clean+0x18a/0x240 [ionic] [ 4371.404354] ionic_tx_cq_service+0xc4/0x200 [ionic] [ 4371.404505] ionic_tx_flush+0x15/0x70 [ionic] [ 4371.404653] ? ionic_lif_qcq_deinit.isra.23+0x5b/0x70 [ionic] [ 4371.404805] ionic_txrx_deinit+0x71/0x190 [ionic] [ 4371.404956] ionic_reconfigure_queues+0x5f5/0xff0 [ionic] [ 4371.405111] ionic_set_ringparam+0x2e8/0x3e0 [ionic] [ 4371.405265] ethnl_set_rings+0x1f1/0x300 [ 4371.405418] ethnl_default_set_doit+0xbb/0x160 [ 4371.405571] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xff/0x130 [...] I found that ionic_tx_clean() calls napi_consume_skb() which calls napi_skb_cache_put(), but before that last call is the note /* Zero budget indicate non-NAPI context called us, like netpoll */ and DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(!in_softirq()); Those are pretty big hints that we're doing it wrong. We can pass a context hint down through the calls to let ionic_tx_clean() know what we're doing so it can call napi_consume_skb() correctly.

Affected

16 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.9.8-1 (forky)linux 6.9.8-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 386e69865311044b576ff536c99c6ee9cc98a228 < ef7646ed49fff962e97b276f4ab91327a67eeb5aef7646ed49fff962e97b276f4ab91327a67eeb5a
linuxlinux>= 386e69865311044b576ff536c99c6ee9cc98a228 < 84b767f9e34fdb143c09e66a2a20722fc292182184b767f9e34fdb143c09e66a2a20722fc2921821
linuxlinux_kernel< 6.96.9
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.9.8-16.9.8-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.9.8-16.9.8-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.9.1 < 6.9.86.9.8
msrcazl3_kernel_6.6.43.1-7_on_azure_linux_3.0
msrcazl3_kernel_6.6.92.2-1_on_azure_linux_3.0
msrcazure_linux_3.0_arm
msrcazure_linux_3.0_x64
msrccbl2_kernel_5.15.162.2-1_on_cbl_mariner_2.0
msrccbl2_kernel_5.15.180.1-1_on_cbl_mariner_2.0
msrccbl_mariner_2.0_arm
msrccbl_mariner_2.0_x64

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5LOW
vendor_msrc5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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