CVE-2024-36281

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

net/mlx5: Use mlx5_ipsec_rx_status_destroy to correctly delete status rules

rx_create no longer allocates a modify_hdr instance that needs to be
cleaned up. The mlx5_modify_header_dealloc call will lead to a NULL pointer
dereference. A leak in the rules also previously occurred since there are
now two rules populated related to status.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 109907067 P4D 109907067 PUD 116890067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 1 PID: 484 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.9.0-rc2-rrameshbabu+ #254
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:mlx5_modify_header_dealloc+0xd/0x70
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Call Trace:
<TASK>
? show_regs+0x60/0x70
? __die+0x24/0x70
? page_fault_oops+0x15f/0x430
? free_to_partial_list.constprop.0+0x79/0x150
? do_user_addr_fault+0x2c9/0x5c0
? exc_page_fault+0x63/0x110
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30
? mlx5_modify_header_dealloc+0xd/0x70
rx_create+0x374/0x590
rx_add_rule+0x3ad/0x500
? rx_add_rule+0x3ad/0x500
? mlx5_cmd_exec+0x2c/0x40
? mlx5_create_ipsec_obj+0xd6/0x200
mlx5e_accel_ipsec_fs_add_rule+0x31/0xf0
mlx5e_xfrm_add_state+0x426/0xc00
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