Vulnerability CVE-2021-47424

Vulnerability CVE-2021-47424

Published: 2024-05-21

Description:

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

i40e: Fix freeing of uninitialized misc IRQ vector

When VSI set up failed in i40e_probe() as part of PF switch set up
driver was trying to free misc IRQ vectors in
i40e_clear_interrupt_scheme and produced a kernel Oops:

Trying to free already-free IRQ 266
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5 at kernel/irq/manage.c:1731 __free_irq+0x9a/0x300
Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn
RIP: 0010:__free_irq+0x9a/0x300
Call Trace:
? synchronize_irq+0x3a/0xa0
free_irq+0x2e/0x60
i40e_clear_interrupt_scheme+0x53/0x190 [i40e]
i40e_probe.part.108+0x134b/0x1a40 [i40e]
? kmem_cache_alloc+0x158/0x1c0
? acpi_ut_update_ref_count.part.1+0x8e/0x345
? acpi_ut_update_object_reference+0x15e/0x1e2
? strstr+0x21/0x70
? irq_get_irq_data+0xa/0x20
? mp_check_pin_attr+0x13/0xc0
? irq_get_irq_data+0xa/0x20
? mp_map_pin_to_irq+0xd3/0x2f0
? acpi_register_gsi_ioapic+0x93/0x170
? pci_conf1_read+0xa4/0x100
? pci_bus_read_config_word+0x49/0x70
? do_pci_enable_device+0xcc/0x100
local_pci_probe+0x41/0x90
work_for_cpu_fn+0x16/0x20
process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
worker_thread+0x1cf/0x390
? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
kthread+0x112/0x130
? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40

The problem is that at that point misc IRQ vectors
were not allocated yet and we get a call trace
that driver is trying to free already free IRQ vectors.

Add a check in i40e_clear_interrupt_scheme for __I40E_MISC_IRQ_REQUESTED
PF state before calling i40e_free_misc_vector. This state is set only if
misc IRQ vectors were properly initialized.

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60ad4cde0ad28921f9ea25b0201c774b95ffa4b4

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17063cac4088b8e2fc0f633abddca5426ed58312

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97aeed72af4f83ae51534f0a2473ff52f8d66236

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75099439209d3cda439a1d9b00d19a50f0066fef

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e5a20573a926302b233b0c2e1077f5debc7ab2e

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