CVE-2024-26709 powerpc/iommu: Fix the missing iommu_group_put() during platform domain attach

2024-04-0314:55:11

Linux

github.com

linux kernel

vulnerability resolved

powerpc/iommu

missing iommu_group_put()

refcount leak

bug_on()

dlpar remove operation

ibm power10

patch

cve

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%

JSON

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

powerpc/iommu: Fix the missing iommu_group_put() during platform domain attach

The function spapr_tce_platform_iommu_attach_dev() is missing to call
iommu_group_put() when the domain is already set. This refcount leak
shows up with BUG_ON() during DLPAR remove operation as:

KernelBug: Kernel bug in state ‘None’: kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c:100!
Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=8192 NUMA pSeries
<snip>
Hardware name: IBM,9080-HEX POWER10 (raw) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NH1060_016) hv:phyp pSeries
NIP: c0000000000ff4d4 LR: c0000000000ff4cc CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c0000013aed5f840 TRAP: 0700 Tainted: G I (6.8.0-rc3-autotest-g99bd3cb0d12e)
MSR: 8000000000029033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 44002402 XER: 20040000
CFAR: c000000000a0d170 IRQMASK: 0
…
NIP iommu_reconfig_notifier+0x94/0x200
LR iommu_reconfig_notifier+0x8c/0x200
Call Trace:
iommu_reconfig_notifier+0x8c/0x200 (unreliable)
notifier_call_chain+0xb8/0x19c
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x64/0x98
of_reconfig_notify+0x44/0xdc
of_detach_node+0x78/0xb0
ofdt_write.part.0+0x86c/0xbb8
proc_reg_write+0xf4/0x150
vfs_write+0xf8/0x488
ksys_write+0x84/0x140
system_call_exception+0x138/0x330
system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec

The patch adds the missing iommu_group_put() call.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "a8ca9fc9134c",
        "lessThan": "c90fdea9cac9",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "a8ca9fc9134c",
        "lessThan": "0846dd77c834",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "6.7",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "6.7",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.7.6",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.7.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.8",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]