Vulnerability CVE-2024-38595
Published: 2024-06-19

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

net/mlx5: Fix peer devlink set for SF representor devlink port

The cited patch change register devlink flow, and neglect to reflect
the changes for peer devlink set logic. Peer devlink set is
triggering a call trace if done after devl_register.[1]

Hence, align peer devlink set logic with register devlink flow.

[1]
WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 3394 at net/devlink/core.c:155 devlink_rel_nested_in_add+0x177/0x180
CPU: 4 PID: 3394 Comm: kworker/u40:1 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4_for_linust_min_debug_2024_04_16_14_08 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: mlx5_vhca_event0 mlx5_vhca_state_work_handler [mlx5_core]
RIP: 0010:devlink_rel_nested_in_add+0x177/0x180
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __warn+0x78/0x120
? devlink_rel_nested_in_add+0x177/0x180
? report_bug+0x16d/0x180
? handle_bug+0x3c/0x60
? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
? devlink_port_init+0x30/0x30
? devlink_port_type_clear+0x50/0x50
? devlink_rel_nested_in_add+0x177/0x180
? devlink_rel_nested_in_add+0xdd/0x180
mlx5_sf_mdev_event+0x74/0xb0 [mlx5_core]
notifier_call_chain+0x35/0xb0
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x3d/0x60
mlx5_blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x22/0x30 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_sf_dev_probe+0x185/0x3e0 [mlx5_core]
auxiliary_bus_probe+0x38/0x80
? driver_sysfs_add+0x51/0x80
really_probe+0xc5/0x3a0
? driver_probe_device+0x90/0x90
__driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160
driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
__device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100
bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0xd0
__device_attach+0xbc/0x1f0
bus_probe_device+0x86/0xa0
device_add+0x64f/0x860
__auxiliary_device_add+0x3b/0xa0
mlx5_sf_dev_add+0x139/0x330 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_sf_dev_state_change_handler+0x1e4/0x250 [mlx5_core]
notifier_call_chain+0x35/0xb0
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x3d/0x60
mlx5_vhca_state_work_handler+0x151/0x200 [mlx5_core]
process_one_work+0x13f/0x2e0
worker_thread+0x2bd/0x3c0
? rescuer_thread+0x410/0x410
kthread+0xc4/0xf0
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
</TASK>

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0501201751034ebe7a22bd9483ed28fea1cd213
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05d9d7b66836d87c914f8fdd4b062b78e373458d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c453e8cc672de1f9c662948dba43176bc68d7f0
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