CVE-2023-52474

IB/hfi1: Fix bugs with non-PAGE_SIZE-end multi-iovec user SDMA requests

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: February 26, 2024 at 05:20 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 09:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/hfi1: Fix bugs with non-PAGE_SIZE-end multi-iovec user SDMA requests hfi1 user SDMA request processing has two bugs that can cause data corruption for user SDMA requests that have multiple payload iovecs where an iovec other than the tail iovec does not run up to the page boundary for the buffer pointed to by that iovec.a Here are the specific bugs: 1. user_sdma_txadd() does not use struct user_sdma_iovec->iov.iov_len. Rather, user_sdma_txadd() will add up to PAGE_SIZE bytes from iovec to the packet, even if some of those bytes are past iovec->iov.iov_len and are thus not intended to be in the packet. 2. user_sdma_txadd() and user_sdma_send_pkts() fail to advance to the next iovec in user_sdma_request->iovs when the current iovec is not PAGE_SIZE and does not contain enough data to complete the packet. The transmitted packet will contain the wrong data from the iovec pages. This has not been an issue with SDMA packets from hfi1 Verbs or PSM2 because they only produce iovecs that end short of PAGE_SIZE as the tail iovec of an SDMA request. Fixing these bugs exposes other bugs with the SDMA pin cache (struct mmu_rb_handler) that get in way of supporting user SDMA requests with multiple payload iovecs whose buffers do not end at PAGE_SIZE. So this commit fixes those issues as well. Here are the mmu_rb_handler bugs that non-PAGE_SIZE-end multi-iovec payload user SDMA requests can hit: 1. Overlapping memory ranges in mmu_rb_handler will result in duplicate pinnings. 2. When extending an existing mmu_rb_handler entry (struct mmu_rb_node), the mmu_rb code (1) removes the existing entry under a lock, (2) releases that lock, pins the new pages, (3) then reacquires the lock to insert the extended mmu_rb_node. If someone else comes in and inserts an overlapping entry between (2) and (3), insert in (3) will fail. The failure path code in this case unpins _all_ pages in either the original mmu_rb_node or the new mmu_rb_node that was inserted between (2) and (3). 3. In hfi1_mmu_rb_remove_unless_exact(), mmu_rb_node->refcount is incremented outside of mmu_rb_handler->lock. As a result, mmu_rb_node could be evicted by another thread that gets mmu_rb_handler->lock and checks mmu_rb_node->refcount before mmu_rb_node->refcount is incremented. 4. Related to #2 above, SDMA request submission failure path does not check mmu_rb_node->refcount before freeing mmu_rb_node object. If there are other SDMA requests in progress whose iovecs have pointers to the now-freed mmu_rb_node(s), those pointers to the now-freed mmu_rb nodes will be dereferenced when those SDMA requests complete.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

4.3 ≤ v < 5.10.1804.3 ≤ v < 5.15.1114.3 ≤ v < 6.1.284.3 ≤ v < 6.2.154.3 ≤ v < 6.3.24.3 ≤ v < 6.44.3.0 ≤ v < 5.10.1805.11.0 ≤ v < 5.15.1115.16.0 ≤ v < 6.1.286.2.0 ≤ v < 6.2.156.3.0 ≤ v < 6.3.24.37724105686e718ac476a6ad3304fea2fbcfcffde
Vendor states this is fixed in 00cbce5cbf88459cd1aa1d60d0f1df15477df127 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7e6010f79b58f45b204cf18aa58f4b73c3f30adc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9c4c6512d7330b743c4ffd18bd999a86ca26db0d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a2bd706ab63509793b5cd5065e685b7ef5cba678 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c76cb8f4bdf26d04cfa5485a93ce297dba5e6a80 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in dce59b5443700fbd0d2433ec6e4d4cf063448844 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.180 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.111 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.28 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.2.15 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.3.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.4 (unaffected)

References (6)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00cbce5cbf88459cd1aa1d60d0f1df15477df127
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e6010f79b58f45b204cf18aa58f4b73c3f30adc
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c4c6512d7330b743c4ffd18bd999a86ca26db0d
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2bd706ab63509793b5cd5065e685b7ef5cba678
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c76cb8f4bdf26d04cfa5485a93ce297dba5e6a80
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dce59b5443700fbd0d2433ec6e4d4cf063448844

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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