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HistorySep 04, 2024 - 7:54 p.m.

CVE-2024-44976 ata: pata_macio: Fix DMA table overflow

2024-09-0419:54:28
Linux
github.com
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linux kernel
vulnerability
pata_macio
dma table
overflow
powermacs
bug
fix
max_segment_size
page_size
64kb
scsi core
request size
max_sectors_kb
udev rules

AI Score

7.3

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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

ata: pata_macio: Fix DMA table overflow

Kolbjørn and Jonáš reported that their 32-bit PowerMacs were crashing
in pata-macio since commit 09fe2bfa6b83 (“ata: pata_macio: Fix
max_segment_size with PAGE_SIZE == 64K”).

For example:

kernel BUG at drivers/ata/pata_macio.c:544!
Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
BE PAGE_SIZE=4K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PowerMac

NIP pata_macio_qc_prep+0xf4/0x190
LR pata_macio_qc_prep+0xfc/0x190
Call Trace:
0xc1421660 (unreliable)
ata_qc_issue+0x14c/0x2d4
__ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x200/0x53c
ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x50/0xe0
scsi_queue_rq+0x788/0xb1c
__blk_mq_issue_directly+0x58/0xf4
blk_mq_plug_issue_direct+0x8c/0x1b4
blk_mq_flush_plug_list.part.0+0x584/0x5e0
__blk_flush_plug+0xf8/0x194
__submit_bio+0x1b8/0x2e0
submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x230/0x304
btrfs_work_helper+0x200/0x338
process_one_work+0x1a8/0x338
worker_thread+0x364/0x4c0
kthread+0x100/0x104
start_kernel_thread+0x10/0x14

That commit increased max_segment_size to 64KB, with the justification
that the SCSI core was already using that size when PAGE_SIZE == 64KB,
and that there was existing logic to split over-sized requests.

However with a sufficiently large request, the splitting logic causes
each sg to be split into two commands in the DMA table, leading to
overflow of the DMA table, triggering the BUG_ON().

With default settings the bug doesn’t trigger, because the request size
is limited by max_sectors_kb == 1280, however max_sectors_kb can be
increased, and apparently some distros do that by default using udev
rules.

Fix the bug for 4KB kernels by reverting to the old max_segment_size.

For 64KB kernels the sg_tablesize needs to be halved, to allow for the
possibility that each sg will be split into two.

AI Score

7.3

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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