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CVE-2023-52587 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/ipoib: Fix mcast list locking Releasing the `priv->lock` while iterating the `priv->multicast_list` in `ipoib_mcast_join_task()` opens a window for `ipoib_mcast_dev_flush()` to remove the items while in the middle of iteration. If the mcast is removed while the lock was dropped, the for loop spins forever resulting in a hard lockup (as was reported on RHEL 4.18.0-372.75.1.el8_6 kernel): Task A (kworker/u72:2 below) | Task B (kworker/u72:0 below) -----------------------------------+----------------------------------- ipoib_mcast_join_task(work) | ipoib_ib_dev_flush_light(work) spin_lock_irq(&priv->lock) | __ipoib_ib_dev_flush(priv, ...) list_for_each_entry(mcast, | ipoib_mcast_dev_flush(dev = priv->dev) &priv->multicast_list, list) | ipoib_mcast_join(dev, mcast) | spin_unlock_irq(&priv->lock) | | spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags) | list_for_each_entry_safe(mcast, tmcast, | &priv->multicast_list, list) | list_del(&mcast->list); | list_add_tail(&mcast->list, &remove_list) | spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags) spin_lock_irq(&priv->lock) | | ipoib_mcast_remove_list(&remove_list) (Here, `mcast` is no longer on the | list_for_each_entry_safe(mcast, tmcast, `priv->multicast_list` and we keep | remove_list, list) spinning on the `remove_list` of | >>> wait_for_completion(&mcast->done) the other thread which is blocked | and the list is still valid on | it's stack.) Fix this by keeping the lock held and changing to GFP_ATOMIC to prevent eventual sleeps. Unfortunately we could not reproduce the lockup and confirm this fix but based on the code review I think this fix should address such lockups. crash> bc 31 PID: 747 TASK: ff1c6a1a007e8000 CPU: 31 COMMAND: "kworker/u72:2" -- [exception RIP: ipoib_mcast_join_task+0x1b1] RIP: ffffffffc0944ac1 RSP: ff646f199a8c7e00 RFLAGS: 00000002 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ff1c6a1a04dc82f8 RCX: 0000000000000000 work (&priv->mcast_task{,.work}) RDX: ff1c6a192d60ac68 RSI: 0000000000000286 RDI: ff1c6a1a04dc8000 &mcast->list RBP: ff646f199a8c7e90 R8: ff1c699980019420 R9: ff1c6a1920c9a000 R10: ff646f199a8c7e00 R11: ff1c6a191a7d9800 R12: ff1c6a192d60ac00 mcast R13: ff1c6a1d82200000 R14: ff1c6a1a04dc8000 R15: ff1c6a1a04dc82d8 dev priv (&priv->lock) &priv->multicast_list (aka head) ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 --- <NMI exception stack> --- #5 [ff646f199a8c7e00] ipoib_mcast_join_task+0x1b1 at ffffffffc0944ac1 [ib_ipoib] #6 [ff646f199a8c7e98] process_one_work+0x1a7 at ffffffff9bf10967 crash> rx ff646f199a8c7e68 ff646f199a8c7e68: ff1c6a1a04dc82f8 <<< work = &priv->mcast_task.work crash> list -hO ipoib_dev_priv.multicast_list ff1c6a1a04dc8000 (empty) crash> ipoib_dev_priv.mcast_task.work.func,mcast_mutex.owner.counter ff1c6a1a04dc8000 mcast_task.work.func = 0xffffffffc0944910 <ipoib_mcast_join_task>, mcast_mutex.owner.counter = 0xff1c69998efec000 crash> b 8 PID: 8 TASK: ff1c69998efec000 CPU: 33 COMMAND: "kworker/u72:0" -- #3 [ff646f1980153d50] wait_for_completion+0x96 at ffffffff9c7d7646 #4 [ff646f1980153d90] ipoib_mcast_remove_list+0x56 at ffffffffc0944dc6 [ib_ipoib] #5 [ff646f1980153de8] ipoib_mcast_dev_flush+0x1a7 at ffffffffc09455a7 [ib_ipoib] #6 [ff646f1980153e58] __ipoib_ib_dev_flush+0x1a4 at ffffffffc09431a4 [ib_ipoib] #7 [ff ---truncated---


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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/342258fb46d66c1b4c7e2c3717ac01e10c03cf18 CVE, kernel.org Exploit  Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c8922ae8eb8dcc1e4b7d1059d97a8334288d825 CVE, kernel.org Exploit  Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f973e211b3b1c6d36f7c6a19239d258856749f9 CVE, kernel.org Exploit  Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5108a2dc2db5630fb6cd58b8be80a0c134bc310a CVE, kernel.org Exploit  Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/615e3adc2042b7be4ad122a043fc9135e6342c90 CVE, kernel.org Exploit  Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c7bd4d561e9dc6f5b7df9e184974915f6701a89 CVE, kernel.org Exploit  Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac2630fd3c90ffec34a0bfc4d413668538b0e8f2 CVE, kernel.org Exploit  Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed790bd0903ed3352ebf7f650d910f49b7319b34 CVE, kernel.org Exploit  Mailing List  Patch 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html CVE Exploit  Mailing List  Patch 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html CVE Exploit  Mailing List  Patch 

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CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-667 Improper Locking cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-52587
NVD Published Date:
03/06/2024
NVD Last Modified:
02/14/2025
Source:
kernel.org