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CVE-2024-26709

Disclosure Date: April 03, 2024
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Description

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.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

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