Vulnerability CVE-2024-40970

Vulnerability CVE-2024-40970

Published: 2024-07-12

Description:

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

Avoid hw_desc array overrun in dw-axi-dmac

I have a use case where nr_buffers = 3 and in which each descriptor is composed by 3
segments, resulting in the DMA channel descs_allocated to be 9. Since axi_desc_put()
handles the hw_desc considering the descs_allocated, this scenario would result in a
kernel panic (hw_desc array will be overrun).

To fix this, the proposal is to add a new member to the axi_dma_desc structure,
where we keep the number of allocated hw_descs (axi_desc_alloc()) and use it in
axi_desc_put() to handle the hw_desc array correctly.

Additionally I propose to remove the axi_chan_start_first_queued() call after completing
the transfer, since it was identified that unbalance can occur (started descriptors can
be interrupted and transfer ignored due to DMA channel not being enabled).

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c3bb96a20cd8db3b8824b2ff08b6cde4505c7e5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd42570018f5962c10f215ad9c21274ed5d3541e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e151ae1ee065cf4b8ce4394ddb9d9c8df6370c66

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9004784e8d68bcd1ac1376407ba296fa28f04dbe

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/333e11bf47fa8d477db90e2900b1ed3c9ae9b697

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