CVE-2024-46683

drm/xe: prevent UAF around preempt fence

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 13, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2024

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Description

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

drm/xe: prevent UAF around preempt fence

The fence lock is part of the queue, therefore in the current design anything locking the fence should then also hold a ref to the queue to prevent the queue from being freed.

However, currently it looks like we signal the fence and then drop the queue ref, but if something is waiting on the fence, the waiter is kicked to wake up at some later point, where upon waking up it first grabs the lock before checking the fence state. But if we have already dropped the queue ref, then the lock might already be freed as part of the queue, leading to uaf.

To prevent this, move the fence lock into the fence itself so we don't run into lifetime issues. Alternative might be to have device level lock, or only release the queue in the fence release callback, however that might require pushing to another worker to avoid locking issues.

References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/2454 References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/2342 References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/2020 (cherry picked from commit 7116c35aacedc38be6d15bd21b2fc936eed0008b)

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
  • dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 to before 10081b0b0ed201f53e24bd92deb2e0f3c3e713d4Affected
  • dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 to before 730b72480e29f63fd644f5fa57c9d46109428953Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.8Affected
  • before 6.8Not affected
  • 6.10.8 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11 and laterNot affected

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