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High severity Unreviewed Published May 22, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 8, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

ice: fix locking for Tx timestamp tracking flush

Commit 4dd0d5c33c3e ("ice: add lock around Tx timestamp tracker flush")
added a lock around the Tx timestamp tracker flow which is used to
cleanup any left over SKBs and prepare for device removal.

This lock is problematic because it is being held around a call to
ice_clear_phy_tstamp. The clear function takes a mutex to send a PHY
write command to firmware. This could lead to a deadlock if the mutex
actually sleeps, and causes the following warning on a kernel with
preemption debugging enabled:

[ 715.419426] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:573
[ 715.427900] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 3100, name: rmmod
[ 715.435652] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
[ 715.439591] Preemption disabled at:
[ 715.439594] [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
[ 715.446678] CPU: 52 PID: 3100 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G W OE 5.15.0-rc4+ #42 bdd7ec3018e725f159ca0d372ce8c2c0e784891c
[ 715.458058] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600STQ/S2600STQ, BIOS SE5C620.86B.02.01.0010.010620200716 01/06/2020
[ 715.468483] Call Trace:
[ 715.470940] dump_stack_lvl+0x6a/0x9a
[ 715.474613] ___might_sleep.cold+0x224/0x26a
[ 715.478895] __mutex_lock+0xb3/0x1440
[ 715.482569] ? stack_depot_save+0x378/0x500
[ 715.486763] ? ice_sq_send_cmd+0x78/0x14c0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.494979] ? kfree+0xc1/0x520
[ 715.498128] ? mutex_lock_io_nested+0x12a0/0x12a0
[ 715.502837] ? kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30
[ 715.507110] ? __kasan_slab_free+0x10b/0x140
[ 715.511385] ? slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc7/0x220
[ 715.516092] ? kfree+0xc1/0x520
[ 715.519235] ? ice_deinit_lag+0x16c/0x220 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.527359] ? ice_remove+0x1cf/0x6a0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.535133] ? pci_device_remove+0xab/0x1d0
[ 715.539318] ? __device_release_driver+0x35b/0x690
[ 715.544110] ? driver_detach+0x214/0x2f0
[ 715.548035] ? bus_remove_driver+0x11d/0x2f0
[ 715.552309] ? pci_unregister_driver+0x26/0x250
[ 715.556840] ? ice_module_exit+0xc/0x2f [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.564799] ? __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x2d8/0x4e0
[ 715.570554] ? do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[ 715.574303] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[ 715.579529] ? start_flush_work+0x542/0x8f0
[ 715.583719] ? ice_sq_send_cmd+0x78/0x14c0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.591923] ice_sq_send_cmd+0x78/0x14c0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.599960] ? wait_for_completion_io+0x250/0x250
[ 715.604662] ? lock_acquire+0x196/0x200
[ 715.608504] ? do_raw_spin_trylock+0xa5/0x160
[ 715.612864] ice_sbq_rw_reg+0x1e6/0x2f0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.620813] ? ice_reset+0x130/0x130 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.628497] ? __debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x1e8/0x3c0
[ 715.633550] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x1c/0x130
[ 715.637748] ice_write_phy_reg_e810+0x70/0xf0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.646220] ? do_raw_spin_trylock+0xa5/0x160
[ 715.650581] ? ice_ptp_release+0x910/0x910 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.658797] ? ice_ptp_release+0x255/0x910 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.667013] ice_clear_phy_tstamp+0x2c/0x110 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.675403] ice_ptp_release+0x408/0x910 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.683440] ice_remove+0x560/0x6a0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d]
[ 715.691037] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x46/0x73
[ 715.696005] pci_device_remove+0xab/0x1d0
[ 715.700018] __device_release_driver+0x35b/0x690
[ 715.704637] driver_detach+0x214/0x2f0
[ 715.708389] bus_remove_driver+0x11d/0x2f0
[ 715.712489] pci_unregister_driver+0x26/0x250
[ 71
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References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 22, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 22, 2024
Last updated Aug 8, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.043%
(11th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-47449

GHSA ID

GHSA-8g8j-p6r7-xj34

Source code

No known source code

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