vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-52559: Security patch for kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2023-029)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/02/2024
Added
07/09/2024
Modified
01/28/2025

Description

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

iommu/vt-d: Avoid memory allocation in iommu_suspend()

The iommu_suspend() syscore suspend callback is invoked with IRQ disabled.
Allocating memory with the GFP_KERNEL flag may re-enable IRQs during
the suspend callback, which can cause intermittent suspend/hibernation
problems with the following kernel traces:

Calling iommu_suspend+0x0/0x1d0
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 15 at kernel/time/timekeeping.c:868 ktime_get+0x9b/0xb0
...
CPU: 0 PID: 15 Comm: rcu_preempt Tainted: G U E 6.3-intel #r1
RIP: 0010:ktime_get+0x9b/0xb0
...
Call Trace:

tick_sched_timer+0x22/0x90
? __pfx_tick_sched_timer+0x10/0x10
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x111/0x2b0
hrtimer_interrupt+0xfa/0x230
__sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x63/0x140
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7b/0xa0


asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1f/0x30
...
------------[ cut here ]------------
Interrupts enabled after iommu_suspend+0x0/0x1d0
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 27420 at drivers/base/syscore.c:68 syscore_suspend+0x147/0x270
CPU: 0 PID: 27420 Comm: rtcwake Tainted: G U W E 6.3-intel #r1
RIP: 0010:syscore_suspend+0x147/0x270
...
Call Trace:

hibernation_snapshot+0x25b/0x670
hibernate+0xcd/0x390
state_store+0xcf/0xe0
kobj_attr_store+0x13/0x30
sysfs_kf_write+0x3f/0x50
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x128/0x200
vfs_write+0x1fd/0x3c0
ksys_write+0x6f/0xf0
__x64_sys_write+0x1d/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

Given that only 4 words memory is needed, avoid the memory allocation in
iommu_suspend().

Solution(s)

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bpftoolamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bpftool-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernelamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-headersamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-5-15-136-90-144amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-toolsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-tools-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-tools-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perfamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perf-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-perfamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-perf-debuginfo
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