CVE-2024-26766

Disclosure Date: April 03, 2024 •

CVE-2024-26766

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Description

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

IB/hfi1: Fix sdma.h tx->num_descs off-by-one error

Unfortunately the commit fd8958efe877 introduced another error
causing the descs array to overflow. This reults in further crashes
easily reproducible by sendmsg system call.

[ 1080.836473] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x400300015528b00a: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI

[ 1080.869326] RIP: 0010:hfi1_ipoib_build_ib_tx_headers.constprop.0+0xe1/0x2b0 [hfi1]

[ 1080.974535] Call Trace:
[ 1080.976990] <TASK>
[ 1081.021929] hfi1_ipoib_send_dma_common+0x7a/0x2e0 [hfi1]
[ 1081.027364] hfi1_ipoib_send_dma_list+0x62/0x270 [hfi1]
[ 1081.032633] hfi1_ipoib_send+0x112/0x300 [hfi1]
[ 1081.042001] ipoib_start_xmit+0x2a9/0x2d0 [ib_ipoib]

[ 1081.046978] dev_hard_start_xmit+0xc4/0x210

[ 1081.148347] __sys_sendmsg+0x59/0xa0

crash> ipoib_txreq 0xffff9cfeba229f00
struct ipoib_txreq {
txreq = {

list = {
  next = 0xffff9cfeba229f00,
  prev = 0xffff9cfeba229f00
},
descp = 0xffff9cfeba229f40,
coalesce_buf = 0x0,
wait = 0xffff9cfea4e69a48,
complete = 0xffffffffc0fe0760 <hfi1_ipoib_sdma_complete>,
packet_len = 0x46d,
tlen = 0x0,
num_desc = 0x0,
desc_limit = 0x6,
next_descq_idx = 0x45c,
coalesce_idx = 0x0,
flags = 0x0,
descs = {{
    qw = {0x8024000120dffb00, 0x4}  # SDMA_DESC0_FIRST_DESC_FLAG (bit 63)
  }, {
    qw = {  0x3800014231b108, 0x4}
  }, {
    qw = { 0x310000e4ee0fcf0, 0x8}
  }, {
    qw = {  0x3000012e9f8000, 0x8}
  }, {
    qw = {  0x59000dfb9d0000, 0x8}
  }, {
    qw = {  0x78000e02e40000, 0x8}
  }}

},
sdma_hdr = 0x400300015528b000, <<< invalid pointer in the tx request structure
sdma_status = 0x0, SDMA_DESC0_LAST_DESC_FLAG (bit 62)
complete = 0x0,
priv = 0x0,
txq = 0xffff9cfea4e69880,
skb = 0xffff9d099809f400
}

If an SDMA send consists of exactly 6 descriptors and requires dword
padding (in the 7th descriptor), the sdma_txreq descriptor array is not
properly expanded and the packet will overflow into the container
structure. This results in a panic when the send completion runs. The
exact panic varies depending on what elements of the container structure
get corrupted. The fix is to use the correct expression in
_pad_sdma_tx_descs() to test the need to expand the descriptor array.

With this patch the crashes are no longer reproducible and the machine is
stable.