Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In May 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mlxsw: thermal: Fix out-of-bounds memory accesses
Currently, mlxsw allows cooling states to be set above the maximum
cooling state supported by the driver:
# cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone2/cdev0/type
mlxsw_fan
# cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone2/cdev0/max_state
10
# echo 18 > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone2/cdev0/cur_state
# echo $?
0
This results in out-of-bounds memory accesses when thermal state
transition statistics are enabled (CONFIG_THERMAL_STATISTICS=y), as the
transition table is accessed with a too large index (state) [1].
According to the thermal maintainer, it is the responsibility of the
driver to reject such operations [2].
Therefore, return an error when the state to be set exceeds the maximum
cooling state supported by the driver.
To avoid dead code, as suggested by the thermal maintainer [3],
partially revert commit a421ce088ac8 ("mlxsw: core: Extend cooling
device with cooling levels") that tried to interpret these invalid
cooling states (above the maximum) in a special way. The cooling levels
array is not removed in order to prevent the fans going below 20% PWM,
which would cause them to get stuck at 0% PWM.
[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in thermal_cooling_device_stats_update+0x271/0x290
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881052f7bf8 by task kworker/0:0/5
CPU: 0 PID: 5 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 5.15.0-rc3-custom-45935-gce1adf704b14 #122
Hardware name: Mellanox Technologies Ltd. "MSN2410-CB2FO"/"SA000874", BIOS 4.6.5 03/08/2016
Workqueue: events_freezable_power_ thermal_zone_device_check
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x8b/0xb3
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1f/0x140
kasan_report.cold+0x7f/0x11b
thermal_cooling_device_stats_update+0x271/0x290
__thermal_cdev_update+0x15e/0x4e0
thermal_cdev_update+0x9f/0xe0
step_wise_throttle+0x770/0xee0
thermal_zone_device_update+0x3f6/0xdf0
process_one_work+0xa42/0x1770
worker_thread+0x62f/0x13e0
kthread+0x3ee/0x4e0
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
Allocated by task 1:
kasan_save_stack+0x1b/0x40
__kasan_kmalloc+0x7c/0x90
thermal_cooling_device_setup_sysfs+0x153/0x2c0
__thermal_cooling_device_register.part.0+0x25b/0x9c0
thermal_cooling_device_register+0xb3/0x100
mlxsw_thermal_init+0x5c5/0x7e0
__mlxsw_core_bus_device_register+0xcb3/0x19c0
mlxsw_core_bus_device_register+0x56/0xb0
mlxsw_pci_probe+0x54f/0x710
local_pci_probe+0xc6/0x170
pci_device_probe+0x2b2/0x4d0
really_probe+0x293/0xd10
__driver_probe_device+0x2af/0x440
driver_probe_device+0x51/0x1e0
__driver_attach+0x21b/0x530
bus_for_each_dev+0x14c/0x1d0
bus_add_driver+0x3ac/0x650
driver_register+0x241/0x3d0
mlxsw_sp_module_init+0xa2/0x174
do_one_initcall+0xee/0x5f0
kernel_init_freeable+0x45a/0x4de
kernel_init+0x1f/0x210
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881052f7800
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 1016 bytes inside of
1024-byte region [ffff8881052f7800, ffff8881052f7c00)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:0000000052355272 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1052f0
head:0000000052355272 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x200000000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=2)
raw: 0200000000010200 ffffea0005034800 0000000300000003 ffff888100041dc0
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8881052f7a80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff8881052f7b00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff8881052f7b80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
^
ffff8881052f7c00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff8881052f7c80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/9aca37cb-1629-5c67-
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFC: digital: fix possible memory leak in digital_in_send_sdd_req()
'skb' is allocated in digital_in_send_sdd_req(), but not free when
digital_in_send_cmd() failed, which will cause memory leak. Fix it
by freeing 'skb' if digital_in_send_cmd() return failed.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFC: digital: fix possible memory leak in digital_tg_listen_mdaa()
'params' is allocated in digital_tg_listen_mdaa(), but not free when
digital_send_cmd() failed, which will cause memory leak. Fix it by
freeing 'params' if digital_send_cmd() return failed.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm: Fix null pointer dereference on pointer edp
The initialization of pointer dev dereferences pointer edp before
edp is null checked, so there is a potential null pointer deference
issue. Fix this by only dereferencing edp after edp has been null
checked.
Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check")
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm: fix mempool NULL pointer race when completing IO
dm_io_dec_pending() calls end_io_acct() first and will then dec md
in-flight pending count. But if a task is swapping DM table at same
time this can result in a crash due to mempool->elements being NULL:
task1 task2
do_resume
->do_suspend
->dm_wait_for_completion
bio_endio
->clone_endio
->dm_io_dec_pending
->end_io_acct
->wakeup task1
->dm_swap_table
->__bind
->__bind_mempools
->bioset_exit
->mempool_exit
->free_io
[ 67.330330] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address 0000000000000000
......
[ 67.330494] pstate: 80400085 (Nzcv daIf +PAN -UAO)
[ 67.330510] pc : mempool_free+0x70/0xa0
[ 67.330515] lr : mempool_free+0x4c/0xa0
[ 67.330520] sp : ffffff8008013b20
[ 67.330524] x29: ffffff8008013b20 x28: 0000000000000004
[ 67.330530] x27: ffffffa8c2ff40a0 x26: 00000000ffff1cc8
[ 67.330535] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffffffdada34c800
[ 67.330541] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: ffffffdada34c800
[ 67.330547] x21: 00000000ffff1cc8 x20: ffffffd9a1304d80
[ 67.330552] x19: ffffffdada34c970 x18: 000000b312625d9c
[ 67.330558] x17: 00000000002dcfbf x16: 00000000000006dd
[ 67.330563] x15: 000000000093b41e x14: 0000000000000010
[ 67.330569] x13: 0000000000007f7a x12: 0000000034155555
[ 67.330574] x11: 0000000000000001 x10: 0000000000000001
[ 67.330579] x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : 0000000000000000
[ 67.330585] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffffff80148b5c1a
[ 67.330590] x5 : ffffff8008013ae0 x4 : 0000000000000001
[ 67.330596] x3 : ffffff80080139c8 x2 : ffffff801083bab8
[ 67.330601] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffffffdada34c970
[ 67.330609] Call trace:
[ 67.330616] mempool_free+0x70/0xa0
[ 67.330627] bio_put+0xf8/0x110
[ 67.330638] dec_pending+0x13c/0x230
[ 67.330644] clone_endio+0x90/0x180
[ 67.330649] bio_endio+0x198/0x1b8
[ 67.330655] dec_pending+0x190/0x230
[ 67.330660] clone_endio+0x90/0x180
[ 67.330665] bio_endio+0x198/0x1b8
[ 67.330673] blk_update_request+0x214/0x428
[ 67.330683] scsi_end_request+0x2c/0x300
[ 67.330688] scsi_io_completion+0xa0/0x710
[ 67.330695] scsi_finish_command+0xd8/0x110
[ 67.330700] scsi_softirq_done+0x114/0x148
[ 67.330708] blk_done_softirq+0x74/0xd0
[ 67.330716] __do_softirq+0x18c/0x374
[ 67.330724] irq_exit+0xb4/0xb8
[ 67.330732] __handle_domain_irq+0x84/0xc0
[ 67.330737] gic_handle_irq+0x148/0x1b0
[ 67.330744] el1_irq+0xe8/0x190
[ 67.330753] lpm_cpuidle_enter+0x4f8/0x538
[ 67.330759] cpuidle_enter_state+0x1fc/0x398
[ 67.330764] cpuidle_enter+0x18/0x20
[ 67.330772] do_idle+0x1b4/0x290
[ 67.330778] cpu_startup_entry+0x20/0x28
[ 67.330786] secondary_start_kernel+0x160/0x170
Fix this by:
1) Establishing pointers to 'struct dm_io' members in
dm_io_dec_pending() so that they may be passed into end_io_acct()
_after_ free_io() is called.
2) Moving end_io_acct() after free_io().
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: musb: dsps: Fix the probe error path
Commit 7c75bde329d7 ("usb: musb: musb_dsps: request_irq() after
initializing musb") has inverted the calls to
dsps_setup_optional_vbus_irq() and dsps_create_musb_pdev() without
updating correctly the error path. dsps_create_musb_pdev() allocates and
registers a new platform device which must be unregistered and freed
with platform_device_unregister(), and this is missing upon
dsps_setup_optional_vbus_irq() error.
While on the master branch it seems not to trigger any issue, I observed
a kernel crash because of a NULL pointer dereference with a v5.10.70
stable kernel where the patch mentioned above was backported. With this
kernel version, -EPROBE_DEFER is returned the first time
dsps_setup_optional_vbus_irq() is called which triggers the probe to
error out without unregistering the platform device. Unfortunately, on
the Beagle Bone Black Wireless, the platform device still living in the
system is being used by the USB Ethernet gadget driver, which during the
boot phase triggers the crash.
My limited knowledge of the musb world prevents me to revert this commit
which was sent to silence a robot warning which, as far as I understand,
does not make sense. The goal of this patch was to prevent an IRQ to
fire before the platform device being registered. I think this cannot
ever happen due to the fact that enabling the interrupts is done by the
->enable() callback of the platform musb device, and this platform
device must be already registered in order for the core or any other
user to use this callback.
Hence, I decided to fix the error path, which might prevent future
errors on mainline kernels while also fixing older ones.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: adis16475: fix deadlock on frequency set
With commit 39c024b51b560
("iio: adis16475: improve sync scale mode handling"), two deadlocks were
introduced:
1) The call to 'adis_write_reg_16()' was not changed to it's unlocked
version.
2) The lock was not being released on the success path of the function.
This change fixes both these issues.
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