Vulnerability CVE-2023-52745

Vulnerability CVE-2023-52745

Published: 2024-05-21

Description:

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

IB/IPoIB: Fix legacy IPoIB due to wrong number of queues

The cited commit creates child PKEY interfaces over netlink will
multiple tx and rx queues, but some devices doesn't support more than 1
tx and 1 rx queues. This causes to a crash when traffic is sent over the
PKEY interface due to the parent having a single queue but the child
having multiple queues.

This patch fixes the number of queues to 1 for legacy IPoIB at the
earliest possible point in time.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000036b
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 4 PID: 209665 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.1.0_for_upstream_min_debug_2022_12_12_17_02 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc+0xcb/0x450
Code: ce 7e 49 8b 50 08 49 83 78 10 00 4d 8b 28 0f 84 cb 02 00 00 4d 85 ed 0f 84 c2 02 00 00 41 8b 44 24 28 48 8d 4a
01 49 8b 3c 24 <49> 8b 5c 05 00 4c 89 e8 65 48 0f c7 0f 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 b8 41 8b
RSP: 0018:ffff88822acbbab8 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000070 RBX: ffff8881c28e3e00 RCX: 00000000064f8dae
RDX: 00000000064f8dad RSI: 0000000000000a20 RDI: 0000000000030d00
RBP: 0000000000000a20 R08: ffff8882f5d30d00 R09: ffff888104032f40
R10: ffff88810fade828 R11: 736f6d6570736575 R12: ffff88810081c000
R13: 00000000000002fb R14: ffffffff817fc865 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f9324ff9700(0000) GS:ffff8882f5d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000000000036b CR3: 00000001125af004 CR4: 0000000000370ea0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
skb_clone+0x55/0xd0
ip6_finish_output2+0x3fe/0x690
ip6_finish_output+0xfa/0x310
ip6_send_skb+0x1e/0x60
udp_v6_send_skb+0x1e5/0x420
udpv6_sendmsg+0xb3c/0xe60
? ip_mc_finish_output+0x180/0x180
? __switch_to_asm+0x3a/0x60
? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x60
sock_sendmsg+0x33/0x40
__sys_sendto+0x103/0x160
? _copy_to_user+0x21/0x30
? kvm_clock_get_cycles+0xd/0x10
? ktime_get_ts64+0x49/0xe0
__x64_sys_sendto+0x25/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
RIP: 0033:0x7f9374f1ed14
Code: 42 41 f8 ff 44 8b 4c 24 2c 4c 8b 44 24 20 89 c5 44 8b 54 24 28 48 8b 54 24 18 b8 2c 00 00 00 48 8b 74 24 10 8b
7c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 34 89 ef 48 89 44 24 08 e8 68 41 f8 ff 48 8b
RSP: 002b:00007f9324ff7bd0 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9324ff7cc8 RCX: 00007f9374f1ed14
RDX: 00000000000002fb RSI: 00007f93000052f0 RDI: 0000000000000030
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00007f9324ff7d40 R09: 000000000000001c
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000012a05f200 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00007f9374d57bdc
</TASK>

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a779187db39b2f32d048a752573e56e4e77807f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1afb666c32931667c15ad1b58e7203f0119dcaf

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b4ef90cbcfa603b3bb536fbd6f261197012b6f6

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7197460dcd43ff0e4a502ba855dd82d37c2848cc

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e632291a2dbce45a24cddeb5fe28fe71d724ba43

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