CVE-2021-47261

IB/mlx5: Fix initializing CQ fragments buffer

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 21, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
May 21, 2024

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Description

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

IB/mlx5: Fix initializing CQ fragments buffer

The function init_cq_frag_buf() can be called to initialize the current CQ fragments buffer cq->buf, or the temporary cq->resize_buf that is filled during CQ resize operation.

However, the offending commit started to use function get_cqe() for getting the CQEs, the issue with this change is that get_cqe() always returns CQEs from cq->buf, which leads us to initialize the wrong buffer, and in case of enlarging the CQ we try to access elements beyond the size of the current cq->buf and eventually hit a kernel panic.

[exception RIP: init_cq_frag_buf+103] [ffff9f799ddcbcd8] mlx5_ib_resize_cq at ffffffffc0835d60 [mlx5_ib] [ffff9f799ddcbdb0] ib_resize_cq at ffffffffc05270df [ib_core] [ffff9f799ddcbdc0] llt_rdma_setup_qp at ffffffffc0a6a712 [llt] [ffff9f799ddcbe10] llt_rdma_cc_event_action at ffffffffc0a6b411 [llt] [ffff9f799ddcbe98] llt_rdma_client_conn_thread at ffffffffc0a6bb75 [llt] [ffff9f799ddcbec8] kthread at ffffffffa66c5da1 [ffff9f799ddcbf50] ret_from_fork_nospec_begin at ffffffffa6d95ddd

Fix it by getting the needed CQE by calling mlx5_frag_buf_get_wqe() that takes the correct source buffer as a parameter.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 388ca8be00370db132464e27f745b8a0add19fcb to before 1ec2dcd680c71d0d36fa25638b327a468babd5c9Affected
  • 388ca8be00370db132464e27f745b8a0add19fcb to before e3ecd9c09fcc10cf6b2bc67e2990c397c40a8c26Affected
  • 388ca8be00370db132464e27f745b8a0add19fcb to before 91f7fdc4cc10542ca1045c06aad23365f0d067e0Affected
  • 388ca8be00370db132464e27f745b8a0add19fcb to before 3e670c54eda238cb8a1ea93538a79ae89285c1c4Affected
  • 388ca8be00370db132464e27f745b8a0add19fcb to before 2ba0aa2feebda680ecfc3c552e867cf4d1b05a3aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.17Affected
  • before 4.17Not affected
  • 4.19.195 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.126 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.44 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.12.11 through 5.12.*Not affected
  • 5.13 and laterNot affected

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