Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ionic: fix use after netif_napi_del()
When queues are started, netif_napi_add() and napi_enable() are called. If there are 4 queues and only 3 queues are used for the current configuration, only 3 queues’ napi should be registered and enabled. The ionic_qcq_enable() checks whether the .poll pointer is not NULL for enabling only the using queue’ napi. Unused queues’ napi will not be registered by netif_napi_add(), so the .poll pointer indicates NULL. But it couldn’t distinguish whether the napi was unregistered or not because netif_napi_del() doesn’t reset the .poll pointer to NULL. So, ionic_qcq_enable() calls napi_enable() for the queue, which was unregistered by netif_napi_del().
Reproducer:
ethtool -L
Splat looks like:
kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:6666!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 3 PID: 1057 Comm: kworker/3:3 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2+ #16
Workqueue: events ionic_lif_deferred_work [ionic]
RIP: 0010:napi_enable+0x3b/0x40
Code: 48 89 c2 48 83 e2 f6 80 b9 61 09 00 00 00 74 0d 48 83 bf 60 01 00 00 00 74 03 80 ce 01 f0 4f
RSP: 0018:ffffb6ed83227d48 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff97560cda0828 RCX: 0000000000000029
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff97560cda0a28
RBP: ffffb6ed83227d50 R08: 0000000000000400 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff97560ce3c1a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff975613ba0a20
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff975d5f780000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8f734ee200 CR3: 0000000103e50000 CR4: 00000000007506f0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 2.6.32 (+12 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ionic: fix use after netif_napi_del()
When queues are started, netif_napi_add() and napi_enable() are called. If there are 4 queues and only 3 queues are used for the current configuration, only 3 queues’ napi should be registered and enabled. The ionic_qcq_enable() checks whether the .poll pointer is not NULL for enabling only the using queue’ napi. Unused queues’ napi will not be registered by netif_napi_add(), so the .poll pointer indicates NULL. But it couldn’t distinguish whether the napi was unregistered or not because netif_napi_del() doesn’t reset the .poll pointer to NULL. So, ionic_qcq_enable() calls napi_enable() for the queue, which was unregistered by netif_napi_del().
Reproducer:
ethtool -L
Splat looks like:
kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:6666!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 3 PID: 1057 Comm: kworker/3:3 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2+ #16
Workqueue: events ionic_lif_deferred_work [ionic]
RIP: 0010:napi_enable+0x3b/0x40
Code: 48 89 c2 48 83 e2 f6 80 b9 61 09 00 00 00 74 0d 48 83 bf 60 01 00 00 00 74 03 80 ce 01 f0 4f
RSP: 0018:ffffb6ed83227d48 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff97560cda0828 RCX: 0000000000000029
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff97560cda0a28
RBP: ffffb6ed83227d50 R08: 0000000000000400 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff97560ce3c1a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff975613ba0a20
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff975d5f780000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8f734ee200 CR3: 0000000103e50000 CR4: 00000000007506f0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace: