vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-50042): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Added
Feb 20, 2025
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

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

ice: Fix increasing MSI-X on VF

Increasing MSI-X value on a VF leads to invalid memory operations. This
is caused by not reallocating some arrays.

Reproducer:
modprobe ice
echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/$PF_PCI/sriov_drivers_autoprobe
echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/$PF_PCI/sriov_numvfs
echo 17 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/$VF0_PCI/sriov_vf_msix_count

Default MSI-X is 16, so 17 and above triggers this issue.

KASAN reports:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8888b937d180 by task bash/28433
(...)

Call Trace:
(...)
? ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]
kasan_report+0xed/0x120
? ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]
ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]
ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x3360/0x4770 [ice]
? mutex_unlock+0x83/0xd0
? __pfx_ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x10/0x10 [ice]
? __pfx_ice_remove_vsi_lkup_fltr+0x10/0x10 [ice]
ice_vsi_cfg+0x7f/0x3b0 [ice]
ice_vf_reconfig_vsi+0x114/0x210 [ice]
ice_sriov_set_msix_vec_count+0x3d0/0x960 [ice]
sriov_vf_msix_count_store+0x21c/0x300
(...)

Allocated by task 28201:
(...)
ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x1c8e/0x4770 [ice]
ice_vsi_cfg+0x7f/0x3b0 [ice]
ice_vsi_setup+0x179/0xa30 [ice]
ice_sriov_configure+0xcaa/0x1520 [ice]
sriov_numvfs_store+0x212/0x390
(...)

To fix it, use ice_vsi_rebuild() instead of ice_vf_reconfig_vsi(). This
causes the required arrays to be reallocated taking the new queue count
into account (ice_vsi_realloc_stat_arrays()). Set req_txq and req_rxq
before ice_vsi_rebuild(), so that realloc uses the newly set queue
count.

Additionally, ice_vsi_rebuild() does not remove VSI filters
(ice_fltr_remove_all()), so ice_vf_init_host_cfg() is no longer
necessary.

Solutions

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