Vulnerability CVE-2024-35989

Vulnerability CVE-2024-35989

Published: 2024-05-20

Description:

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

dmaengine: idxd: Fix oops during rmmod on single-CPU platforms

During the removal of the idxd driver, registered offline callback is
invoked as part of the clean up process. However, on systems with only
one CPU online, no valid target is available to migrate the
perf context, resulting in a kernel oops:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000000002a2b8
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 1470e1067 P4D 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 0 PID: 20 Comm: cpuhp/0 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc6-dsa+ #57
Hardware name: Intel Corporation AvenueCity/AvenueCity, BIOS BHSDCRB1.86B.2492.D03.2307181620 07/18/2023
RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x2e/0x50
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__die+0x24/0x70
page_fault_oops+0x82/0x160
do_user_addr_fault+0x65/0x6b0
pfx_rdmsr_safe_on_cpu+0x10/0x10
exc_page_fault+0x7d/0x170
asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
mutex_lock+0x2e/0x50
mutex_lock+0x1e/0x50
perf_pmu_migrate_context+0x87/0x1f0
perf_event_cpu_offline+0x76/0x90 [idxd]
cpuhp_invoke_callback+0xa2/0x4f0
__pfx_perf_event_cpu_offline+0x10/0x10 [idxd]
cpuhp_thread_fun+0x98/0x150
smpboot_thread_fn+0x27/0x260
smpboot_thread_fn+0x1af/0x260
__pfx_smpboot_thread_fn+0x10/0x10
kthread+0x103/0x140
__pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
__pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
<TASK>

Fix the issue by preventing the migration of the perf context to an
invalid target.

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9edd3aa34d50f27b97be30b2ba4a6af0945ff56b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/023b6390a15a98f9c3aa5e7da78d485d5384a08e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f976eca36cdf94e32fa4f865db0e7c427c9aa33c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47533176fdcef17b114a6f688bc872901c1ec6bb

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f221033f5c24659dc6ad7e5cf18fb1b075f4a8be

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