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CVE-2024-35968

Disclosure Date: May 20, 2024
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Description

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

pds_core: Fix pdsc_check_pci_health function to use work thread

When the driver notices fw_status == 0xff it tries to perform a PCI
reset on itself via pci_reset_function() in the context of the driver’s
health thread. However, pdsc_reset_prepare calls
pdsc_stop_health_thread(), which attempts to stop/flush the health
thread. This results in a deadlock because the stop/flush will never
complete since the driver called pci_reset_function() from the health
thread context. Fix by changing the pdsc_check_pci_health_function()
to queue a newly introduced pdsc_pci_reset_thread() on the pdsc’s
work queue.

Unloading the driver in the fw_down/dead state uncovered another issue,
which can be seen in the following trace:

WARNING: CPU: 51 PID: 6914 at kernel/workqueue.c:1450 queue_work+0x358/0x440
[…]
RIP: 0010:
queue_work+0x358/0x440
[…]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __warn+0x85/0x140
? __queue_work+0x358/0x440
? report_bug+0xfc/0x1e0
? handle_bug+0x3f/0x70
? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
? __queue_work+0x358/0x440
queue_work_on+0x28/0x30
pdsc_devcmd_locked+0x96/0xe0 [pds_core]
pdsc_devcmd_reset+0x71/0xb0 [pds_core]
pdsc_teardown+0x51/0xe0 [pds_core]
pdsc_remove+0x106/0x200 [pds_core]
pci_device_remove+0x37/0xc0
device_release_driver_internal+0xae/0x140
driver_detach+0x48/0x90
bus_remove_driver+0x6d/0xf0
pci_unregister_driver+0x2e/0xa0
pdsc_cleanup_module+0x10/0x780 [pds_core]
__x64_sys_delete_module+0x142/0x2b0
? syscall_trace_enter.isra.18+0x126/0x1a0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
RIP: 0033:0x7fbd9d03a14b
[…]

Fix this by preventing the devcmd reset if the FW is not running.

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