CVE-2022-48890

scsi: storvsc: Fix swiotlb bounce buffer leak in confidential VM

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 21, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Aug 21, 2024

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Description

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

scsi: storvsc: Fix swiotlb bounce buffer leak in confidential VM

storvsc_queuecommand() maps the scatter/gather list using scsi_dma_map(), which in a confidential VM allocates swiotlb bounce buffers. If the I/O submission fails in storvsc_do_io(), the I/O is typically retried by higher level code, but the bounce buffer memory is never freed. The mostly like cause of I/O submission failure is a full VMBus channel ring buffer, which is not uncommon under high I/O loads. Eventually enough bounce buffer memory leaks that the confidential VM can't do any I/O. The same problem can arise in a non-confidential VM with kernel boot parameter swiotlb=force.

Fix this by doing scsi_dma_unmap() in the case of an I/O submission error, which frees the bounce buffer memory.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 743b237c3a7b0f5b44aa704aae8a1058877b6322 to before 87c71e88f6a6619ffb1ff88f84dff48ef6d57adbAffected
  • 743b237c3a7b0f5b44aa704aae8a1058877b6322 to before 67ff3d0a49f3d445c3922e30a54e03c161da561eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.17Affected
  • before 5.17Not affected
  • 6.1.7 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2 and laterNot affected

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