CVE-2024-44932

idpf: fix UAFs when destroying the queues

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 26, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Aug 21, 2024

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Description

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

idpf: fix UAFs when destroying the queues

The second tagged commit started sometimes (very rarely, but possible) throwing WARNs from net/core/page_pool.c:page_pool_disable_direct_recycling(). Turned out idpf frees interrupt vectors with embedded NAPIs *before* freeing the queues making page_pools' NAPI pointers lead to freed memory before these pools are destroyed by libeth. It's not clear whether there are other accesses to the freed vectors when destroying the queues, but anyway, we usually free queue/interrupt vectors only when the queues are destroyed and the NAPIs are guaranteed to not be referenced anywhere.

Invert the allocation and freeing logic making queue/interrupt vectors be allocated first and freed last. Vectors don't require queues to be present, so this is safe. Additionally, this change allows to remove that useless queue->q_vector pointer cleanup, as vectors are still valid when freeing the queues (+ both are freed within one function, so it's not clear why nullify the pointers at all).

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1c325aac10a82f11410da8a2bf35e3e410a42751 to before 3cde714b0e77206ed1b5cf31f28c18ba9ae946fdAffected
  • 1c325aac10a82f11410da8a2bf35e3e410a42751 to before 290f1c033281c1a502a3cd1c53c3a549259c491fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.7Affected
  • before 6.7Not affected
  • 6.10.5 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11 and laterNot affected

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