Linux Kernel up to 6.8.9 bnx2fc mm/vmalloc.c locking

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.8.9. It has been classified as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function of the file mm/vmalloc.c of the component bnx2fc. This manipulation causes an unknown weakness. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2024-36919. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.8.9. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the file mm/vmalloc.c of the component bnx2fc. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-667. The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors. The impact remains unknown. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: bnx2fc: Remove spin_lock_bh while releasing resources after upload The session resources are used by FW and driver when session is offloaded, once session is uploaded these resources are not used. The lock is not required as these fields won't be used any longer. The offload and upload calls are sequential, hence lock is not required. This will suppress following BUG_ON(): [ 449.843143] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 449.848302] kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:2727! [ 449.853072] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ 449.858712] CPU: 5 PID: 1996 Comm: kworker/u24:2 Not tainted 5.14.0-118.el9.x86_64 #1 Rebooting. [ 449.867454] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/0WCJNT, BIOS 2.3.4 11/08/2016 [ 449.876966] Workqueue: fc_rport_eq fc_rport_work [libfc] [ 449.882910] RIP: 0010:vunmap+0x2e/0x30 [ 449.887098] Code: 00 65 8b 05 14 a2 f0 4a a9 00 ff ff 00 75 1b 55 48 89 fd e8 34 36 79 00 48 85 ed 74 0b 48 89 ef 31 f6 5d e9 14 fc ff ff 5d c3 <0f> 0b 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 57 41 56 49 89 ce 41 55 49 89 fd 41 54 41 [ 449.908054] RSP: 0018:ffffb83d878b3d68 EFLAGS: 00010206 [ 449.913887] RAX: 0000000080000201 RBX: ffff8f4355133550 RCX: 000000000d400005 [ 449.921843] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000001000 RDI: ffffb83da53f5000 [ 449.929808] RBP: ffff8f4ac6675800 R08: ffffb83d878b3d30 R09: 00000000000efbdf [ 449.937774] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffff8f434573e000 R12: 0000000000001000 [ 449.945736] R13: 0000000000001000 R14: ffffb83da53f5000 R15: ffff8f43d4ea3ae0 [ 449.953701] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8f529fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 449.962732] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 449.969138] CR2: 00007f8cf993e150 CR3: 0000000efbe10003 CR4: 00000000003706e0 [ 449.977102] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 449.985065] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 449.993028] Call Trace: [ 449.995756] __iommu_dma_free+0x96/0x100 [ 450.000139] bnx2fc_free_session_resc+0x67/0x240 [bnx2fc] [ 450.006171] bnx2fc_upload_session+0xce/0x100 [bnx2fc] [ 450.011910] bnx2fc_rport_event_handler+0x9f/0x240 [bnx2fc] [ 450.018136] fc_rport_work+0x103/0x5b0 [libfc] [ 450.023103] process_one_work+0x1e8/0x3c0 [ 450.027581] worker_thread+0x50/0x3b0 [ 450.031669] ? rescuer_thread+0x370/0x370 [ 450.036143] kthread+0x149/0x170 [ 450.039744] ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40 [ 450.044411] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 [ 450.048404] Modules linked in: vfat msdos fat xfs nfs_layout_nfsv41_files rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 dns_resolver dm_service_time qedf qed crc8 bnx2fc libfcoe libfc scsi_transport_fc intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp dcdbas rapl intel_cstate intel_uncore mei_me pcspkr mei ipmi_ssif lpc_ich ipmi_si fuse zram ext4 mbcache jbd2 loop nfsv3 nfs_acl nfs lockd grace fscache netfs irdma ice sd_mod t10_pi sg ib_uverbs ib_core 8021q garp mrp stp llc mgag200 i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt mxm_wmi fb_sys_fops cec crct10dif_pclmul ahci crc32_pclmul bnx2x drm ghash_clmulni_intel libahci rfkill i40e libata megaraid_sas mdio wmi sunrpc lrw dm_crypt dm_round_robin dm_multipath dm_snapshot dm_bufio dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_zero dm_mod linear raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx raid6_pq libcrc32c crc32c_intel raid1 raid0 iscsi_ibft squashfs be2iscsi bnx2i cnic uio cxgb4i cxgb4 tls [ 450.048497] libcxgbi libcxgb qla4xxx iscsi_boot_sysfs iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi edd ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler [ 450.159753] ---[ end trace 712de2c57c64abc8 ]---

It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-36919. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 207773 (Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2024-7000)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 4.19.314, 5.4.276, 5.10.217, 5.15.159, 6.1.91, 6.6.31 or 6.8.10 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 468f3e3c1507/acd370c1fb86/ad498539dda0/93aa5ccc4478/1150606d47d7/c885ab23206b/ea50941cd8c9/c214ed2a4dda is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (207773). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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License

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• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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