Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bgmac: Fix a BUG triggered by wrong bytes_compl
On one of our machines we got:
kernel BUG at lib/dynamic_queue_limits.c:27!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
CPU: 0 PID: 1166 Comm: irq/41-bgmac Tainted: G W O 4.14.275-rt132 #1
Hardware name: BRCM XGS iProc
task: ee3415c0 task.stack: ee32a000
PC is at dql_completed+0x168/0x178
LR is at bgmac_poll+0x18c/0x6d8
pc : [
The issue seems similar to commit 90b3b339364c (“net: hisilicon: Fix a BUG trigered by wrong bytes_compl”) and potentially introduced by commit b38c83dd0866 (“bgmac: simplify tx ring index handling”).
If there is an RX interrupt between setting ring->end and netdev_sent_queue() we can hit the BUG_ON as bgmac_dma_tx_free() can miscalculate the queue size while called from bgmac_poll().
The machine which triggered the BUG runs a v4.14 RT kernel - but the issue seems present in mainline too.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+9 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bgmac: Fix a BUG triggered by wrong bytes_compl
On one of our machines we got:
kernel BUG at lib/dynamic_queue_limits.c:27!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
CPU: 0 PID: 1166 Comm: irq/41-bgmac Tainted: G W O 4.14.275-rt132 #1
Hardware name: BRCM XGS iProc
task: ee3415c0 task.stack: ee32a000
PC is at dql_completed+0x168/0x178
LR is at bgmac_poll+0x18c/0x6d8
pc : [
The issue seems similar to commit 90b3b339364c (“net: hisilicon: Fix a BUG trigered by wrong bytes_compl”) and potentially introduced by commit b38c83dd0866 (“bgmac: simplify tx ring index handling”).
If there is an RX interrupt between setting ring->end and netdev_sent_queue() we can hit the BUG_ON as bgmac_dma_tx_free() can miscalculate the queue size while called from bgmac_poll().
The machine which triggered the BUG runs a v4.14 RT kernel - but the issue seems present in mainline too.